Title: The Dragon, The Slayer and The Attendant
Author: Shinigami Soldier
Rating: PG-13 to M
Pairings: None yet,but willcome later.The general idea is put in the summary anyway so you should have an idea of what's coming anyway.
Warnings: Some adult themes, Violence though hopefully not too much blood and gore and maybe some OOC characters
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Escaflowne or anything else to do with the series and movie.
Author Notes:
Ok, well this is my first Escaflowne fic. I'm usually a Gundam Wing writer, and usually of 1x2 pairing if anyone knows that. But I recently got into Escaflowne and bought the DVDs and movie. Anyway this idea was sorta festering around during Christmas and such, though I first thought of it during the effect of waaaaaaay to much sugar.
Anyway, a few things. The story line is a bit strange for now and I'm still ironing out some kinks here and there. Dilandau and the Dragon Slayers are on the same side as Van and the other, which is something I'd like to make clear. And basically I've screwed around with characters, relations and pretty much the story line of the original Escaflowne is out the window…which makes this AU. Of course.
/blah/ This is mind speak for Van. The rest is just normal (speech marks, etc.)
Hope anyone who reads this enjoys it.
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With every step her horse took, the temple walls in front of her rose, along with her nerves. This was going to be her new home for the rest of her life. Oh, she might travel and stay around, but this is where she would always return. When she turned around, she could no longer see the silouettes of the houses of her old village. She would miss her best friend Yukari and her old crush, now friend, Amano. She hoped they finally got together, like they both wanted (not that the other knew that, as of yet).
She was to become the new attendant to the Wing Goddess. Her mentor Marlene; who had once been the Princess of Asturia, but who had renounced her title, because she wanted to help people, came here. The current attendant at that time had snatched her up in an instant claiming that Marlene was perfect for the job. And she had been.
Marlene had often come down to the village for supplies and what not, claiming that she did not need to be locked in a room and had come across Hitomi in the street. That was the day she started her training. To be perfectly honest, she was still training, but recently Marlene had come down with something unknown, and the temple healers, which were some of the strongest known, had not been able to help her and she had died; which left Hitomi to take her place.
Something she dreaded and looked forward to.
Of course, she'd been to the temple before and had met most of the people she would associate with now, already.
Drydan, he was the head of the temple. He was sarcastic, humourous and always digging around in his dusty volumes of who knows what. Tall, longish dark brown hair and eyes he was not all together bad looking, but he had cast his eye on someone else much different, and he wasn't really up Hitomi's alley anyway. Much too old.
And then there was Millerna. Pretty, intelligent, fun-loving and often head strong; she was everything Hitomi wished to be and wasn't and going even one step further, she was the third princess of Asturia, the first two having both renounced their titles, and funnily enough, had both come to the same temple. Millerna herself, was not a priestess or even had anything to do with the temple. She lived there though, because of her sisters moving here and had not wanted to be left behind and out of the fun.
Eries was the second princess, but she said it was because she never wanted to rule a country anyway and come here. She enjoyed it much better. She was so serious that Hitomi had to wonder if the woman even knew what fun meant.
And Allen. Handsome, cute, gentlemanly Allen. He was blonde and blue eyed, and he was so nice and he helped wherever he could, when he wasn't on shifts. He was the head of the temple guard, and had refused to be left out of working the shifts along with his men. He just didn't work as many.
There were two other main people who lived at the temple, but she had never met them. She'd even seen them. Marlene had always said she would meet them in her own time and not worry and get upset. They were legends though. The Slayer and his Dragon. The two main assassains – or peacekeepers, whichever way you wanted to look at it – the world had ever seen. Though there were rumours that the Slayer was not all that nice to anyone, even his Dragon, but Hitomi was sure it was just poppycock.
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"Hitomi! We were starting to think you'd got lost on your way here," a deep males voice sounded from the other side of her horse. She looked over the saddle she had just vacated to see Allen smiling at her. She blushed slightly. God it was good to see him again.
He untied her luggage off the back of the horse and put it on the ground. "Is this all you brought? It's only one bag! Are you sure you're a girl?" He asked. "Of course I'm a girl you ninny, and yes. One bag. It's not like I have that much stuff anyway." "Fair enough. Come, the horse boy will look after your horse, so leave him tied there." "I know Allen. This isn't the first time I've come here," She said, insulted that he thought her memory was that bad.
"I know, I was just teasing." He said, his bright white teeth winking at her, making her knees turn to jello, while he smiled. Did he have to be so handsome? It wasn't really fair. The world was conspiring against her. The one man she wanted and she couldn't have! He was already in love with Millerna and currently woeing said girl.
'Lucky her' she thought.
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"Report!" a chilly tone rang around the room. Two boys were kneeling in front of a third, who was seated on a chair with a bored look upon his face. A forth was standing in the left corner behind the hair, in the shadows. His eyes were closed and muscles loose. He appeared to be sleeping.
"We destroyed the recon soldiers, but one managed to get away with seeing out faces. When we realised there was one that was not dead, he was already too far away." The one of the right said. "You displease me then Chesta, Gatti. Why did you let him get away?" He yelled. "We tried Dilandau! There was nothing we could do. He was far ahead of us and our horses were not fast enough."
"Try to get a repreive are we Gatti? Well…can you tell us what he looked like? A name? Anything?" Dilandau said, eerily calm now. "We found his dogtags on the ground. Or we assume they're his since there was no body to match." "Excellent. Rise."
The boys, Gatti and Chesta stood up, and Dilandau walked over to them. "You may have got ID for this man but you still failed to kill them all. So…you must be punished." Dilandau smiled, coldly and punched each in the stomach. "Leave!" The two boys scrammed.
"They make me so mad. They're all incompetant." The silver haired boy growled. He paced in front of his chair, growling under his breath, when laid his eyes on the other boy, his face cracking a cruel smile. "Come here Van. I need to work off some stress."
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Hitomi walked behind Millerna up the stairs, half-listening to the goings on that she was talking about and looking around herself. She'd never been in the living quarters, except for going to Millerna's room for one reason or another. She'd always had her lessons both in the library or the garden, and on occasion in the back building that was for everyday praying, sermons and all that sort of thing.
"Ok, well here are your rooms. Everything's been cleaned out, so you can just put all your stuff well, wherever you want it basically! You have a private bathroom and prayer room of your own, but we share this room, along with Eries." Millerna pushed open the door. I'd seen this room before of course, having been here with Millerna. What she hadn't known was whom she shared with and what was behind the other doors. "So the one on the right is your room, I'm in the middle and Eries is on the left. Got all that?" She said, cheekily.
"Of course!" Hitomi replied, trying to sound prideful before burst out laughing.
SLAM!
Hitomi jumped at the loud noise and poked her head back out the door, and caught a glimpse of a young silver haired man, dressed in red walking in the opposite direction. No, more like swaggering really. "Millerna…who was that?" She asked as she entered the hallway, looking after the strange man. "Who was who?" "That man, with the silver hair and red clothing. He came out of that room there."
"Probably Dilandau. Which room did you say he came out of?" "That one." Hitomi pointed towards the blue door just down the hallway. "So, uh…who's Dilandau?" "Oh right! You've never met him! Be happy. He's not very nice…in fact he's down right rude and mean and just plain awful really. Or that's my opinion. But he is cute, sadly."
Milllerna meandered down the hallway before opening the door that Dilandau had come out of, and went in. Hitomi came down, curious as to why she was going in. The sight she saw was Millerna helping a young boy with raven black hair off the floor. She wasn't having much luck. The strange boy didn't seem to be able to support himself very well.
"Oh come on Van, please get up. You have to!"
/…I-…I can't…/
"Yes you can." She goaded.
"Millerna? What's going on? Who's this?" "Hitomi, meet Van. Van, meet Hitomi," she introduced. Hitomi looked at the young boy as his head came forward and his burning burgandy-red eyes bored into her.
/Hello Prayer of the Wing Goddess. It is good to finally meet you. I am Van Fanel./
TBC
Ok that's the end of chapter one! I hope you enjoyed it, cause umm…well I'm kind of a slow writer so I'm not sure how long it will be, but the next chapter mightn't be for a while. But don't despair!(if you are in despair which I highly doubt…but just in case…) It will come!
Anyway, please read and review. I'd like to see what you think and so on. I do have a plot line in the making but if you have idea or something, please feel free to say so. And if you must flame…do it nicely please.
M.E.