Ohayo, minna! How are you doing? Well it took me forever to get
back into writing...but I'm going to college in the fall and really
need the practice. So I'm back from my hiatus to write again!
It's an escaflowne fic! Yay! I've wanted to write one forever...
Well, Enjoy!
Escape From Pain
by Sailor Red
Discalmer: Escaflowne does not belong to me. Suing me is not cool,
number one, and two, I work at a DONUT SHOP...so all ya'd get is
a coffee and a bagel...no cream cheese...I'm cheap.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It had become painfully evident that Hitomi would never be
able to go back. Her encounter four years ago with strange people
and a war torn world could never again be repeated. Not that she
wanted to find that place in such chaos ever again, but the people
who had throughly changed her life were people she could not forget.
She missed them terribly. The swordsman who loved her most of all.
She had become horribly lonely lately. Her best friend had
married her boyfriend a month ago and had since moved to America...
the man who could have been hers if she hadn't have played the
tragic heroine. Not that she wanted him. There was someone she
loved far more than him, however she had given that man up as well.
He had told her she could stay. It would be "all right"
with him if she stayed in his country and didn't go back to Tokyo.
However, she missed her family, her friends, her world. Now that
Hitomi was in college, her family seen only on major holidays, and
her best friend, Yukari, happily married to Amano-sempai and living
in some strange place called New England, she was lonely. She did
not want to be here. She wished she was there, that that blessed
beam of light would fly her back to Gaea, back to her friends:
Merle, Millerna, Allen...and Van. Van she wanted to see again most
of all.
She found herself pondering the likelyhood of ever getting
back. She figured that there had to be only a slim chance of doing
so. It had to be possible; she knew that anything and everything
was. Most likely, it would be more difficult, as she no longer
possessed her pendant. Yet if "Isaac" could do it without a medium,
she could as well. She just hoped she would't have to be on her
deathbed to do it.
How? Suddenly an idea crossed her mind. Her tarot cards.
Maybe they could give her the answer. She walked to her closet,
opened it and pulled out an old shoebox. Inside were notes written
in between Yukari and herself, pictures from highschool, and of
course, her tarot cards. She smiled when she saw the familiar deck:
blue background, and on the foreground, an orange shaded penticle.
The cards almost seemed to dare her to pick them up and use them;
she had told everyone, including herself that she never would again.
She hesitated for only a moment, then brought them to her
desk, shuffling them and placing them down in the familiar Celtic
Cross spread. She studied them carefully. It was hard to do a
reading on herself. One tended to confuse what one wanted the cards
to say with what the cards actually said.
She didn't get very far into the reading when she was
interupted by a vision. Her grandmother was staring at her.
"My, how you've grown, Hitomi!" The woman smiled. Hitomi
was frozen in shock. "So you want to go back to Gaea, my dear? I
believe you already know how!"
"Demo, obaa-chan! I gave your pendant to Van!"
"There is always more than one way to solve a problem, Hitomi.
It's just that most people don't want to step outside of tradition,
because they're used to the old ways. You don't need that pendant
anymore. Do you understand yet? It's just like dowsing..."
Hitomi's eyes lit up.
"You mean? Is it that simple?" Hitomi's grandmother smiled
and faded away. "Arigatou, Obaa-chan." Hitomi grinned. She
understood. It was so easy! She herself had told Van how to do this
at one time...
With practice in dowsing, after a while, you don't need the
pendant anymore, but you could still use the ability you practiced
with it. She had learned to find things and find her way through
things doing this before. So all she had to do was picture the
pendant and wish to be in Gaea...and she'd get there! So easy, and
yet it had taken her so long to figure it out! She ran to her closet
and grabbed her duffel bag to throw some clothes in. She also packed
pictures of her friends and family. She didn't think she was going
to come back this time. She hoped she wouldn't have to.
Closing her eyes, she tried to envision the pendant. It
was like riding a bicycle...she got the image in her mind's eye
almost right away. Gaea, Austuria, Fanelia, Merle, Millerna,
Celena, Allen, Van. She let pictures of familiar faces and places
dance under closed eyelids. She slowly felt a warmth around her,
and opened her eyes. She was bathed in light.
She was going back.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lightning struck, rain fell, winds blew cruelly battering trees.
In the midst of the storm, a single beam of light was left unnoticed.
Hitomi grimmiced when she touched down, instantly soaked to the bone.
"MO!" she yelled in aggravation. She looked around for shelter,
but there didn't seem to be any in sight. There came a voice.
"Who's there?" A familiar voice...one in which Hitomi could not
place. "I asked you a question!!" The voice yelled. "Who's there?!" Now
the feminine voice growled. Hitomi took a step back, ready to run if
need be. The person to whom the voice belonged stepped out, fur
standing up on end. Fur? Now that she could see the woman more clearly,
she could note her cat-like features. Could it be? The woman was taller
than she remembered...but it had been a few years...and Hitomi herself
had grown....
"Merle?" The woman's eyes narrowed.
"What? How did you... who are you?!" Hitomi smiled at Merle's confusion
and stepped forward. Merle jumped back in shock. Tears started forming
at the corner of her eyes.
"Hitomi? Hitomi? Oh, Thank GOD! Thank god you've come back!!!" The cat
girl started wailing.
"Merle, What's wrong?" Merle suddenly stopped crying. Fear lit her
eyes.
"Hitomi." She whispered. "Walk slowly behind these bushes. Move it!"
"Nani?"
"Just do it, quick, before they see us!" Merle whispered fervently, as
both of them slipped behind the shrubs. "Now be quiet!"
----
"She went in here!" Came a voice.
"Hurry! If the boss finds out we let one of the King's advisors get
out of Fanelia, we'll be better off dead!"
"If that stupid cat girl gets to Austuria and finds the boss..."
"BAKA! What if she hears you?!"
"She's probably long gone by now, anyway."
"We HAVE to find her. Let's go!!"
----
"So I was right." Merle said. "Their leader is in Austuria."
"Merle, what's going on?"
"I'll tell you later. Right now we have to get out of this rain." she
motioned to Hitomi. "Let's go." Merle jumped onto all fours and started
running. Hitomi sprinted after her. They ran through the thistle and
low growing branches ignoring all of the scratches that they were
getting as they ran through their natural obsticles. When they got to
a cave, Merle stopped. "This must be it." Merle told Hitomi, motioning
her to go with her inside of the shelter. "Ruhm told me about this place
about a month ago. It's not on any maps and it's a pain in the butt to
get to, so nobody really knows about it. It's the safest place right
now." She sighed and looked at all the injurys she and Hitomi had
gotten in their run. "Good thing I brought my first aid stuff." She
threw some antiseptic to Hitomi, who caught it, and stared at her.
"Alright, Merle, can I get some answers now?"
"Yeah." The cat girl sighed and sat down on a rock.
"Okay, first off, you seemed a little TOO happy to see me. Plus those
people...what were they talking about?"
"Here goes. Listen up, ya freaky foreigner, 'cause I'm only gonna
explain this once." Hitomi threw the antiseptic bottle at Merle's
head.
"Baka neko!" Merle laughed.
"Watch it Hitomi-chan, or you're gonna need that bottle again." Hitomi
sighed and sat down on the ground. "Here goes. About a week after we
got Fanelia up and running again, people came there to live. Everything's
fine and wonderful. Then we get what seems to be mini civil wars. People
are fighting over the stupidest things. However, what Van-sama and I
found out...was that those incidents were only skin deep. There was a
bigger plot behind it. Ya see, some of the people who moved in were
former residents of the Zaibach empire, and had a grudge against
Van-sama. They were trying to destroy Fanelia from the inside. After
the war, they didn't have much in the way of military power, so this
was the only way that they could do it. Inside information told us
that the one pulling the strings was in Austuria. So that's where I'm
going." Hitomi gulped.
"Why isn't Van with you?" Merle shifted in discomfort.
"You know, this rock isn't exactly soft, is it? I think I'll go sit
on my bag..."
"Merle?! Why are you avoiding the question?"
"Van-sama's sick." Hitomi felt her heart stop.
"What do you mean 'sick'?"
"About a week ago, Van-sama started complaining about a pain in his
side. The doctors checked it out, and couldn't find anything wrong.
Then all of a sudden he passed out. He hasn't woken up in weeks. The
doctors...they can't..." Merle started crying. "They can't help him."
"Merle..." Hitomi started, but couldn't say anything as the cat girl's
words hit her. The doctors can't help him. Which means...she started
sobbing. "I...is Van gonna...Is Van gonna die?"
"He...He might. Unless we...we can figure out what's going on..."
Hitomi felt the world start to spin around her.
"He might."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the midnight shadows that crept around a beautifully adorned palace
room, a woman sat, playing with a doll, stroking it's midnight hair.
She laughed at the doll in her hands. She took a sewing needle, put
the tip in the flame of the candle and poked it into the doll's side.
"Moeru" She smiled. "Vaaaan!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To be Continued...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author's Notes:
MWAHAHAHAAA!! Now, after making all of you lovely people wait so long
for this to come out, I've decided to turn it into a multiparter.
Why? I have no idea why! Actually, this was first a six page tiny
fic and only had Hitomi come back and reunite with Van. But that's
too boring. You see, this is what happens with me when I type
something up on a typewriter or write something out on paper first
and THEN go and type it up on a computer. For some reason my fics
come out longer and more detailed. Plus I love putting charaters
through bad situations. I'm evil, ne? My only exception to this
wierd First draft second draft rule was "From Konan to the Moon"
which ended up with a lot of plot holes because I rushed it
at the end. Bad Sailor Red. I'll just have to think up a sequal
to it some day. Which shouldn't be too hard, because most of it
was psycho humor, so pulling some hairbrained scheme to start it
up again will be a piece of cake. *sigh*
This is a fic that I'm having quite a lot of fun with. Though it's
not as humorous as I originally planned. Actually It's kinda dark.
SORRY!!! I still throw humor in there. I just have to! Call it
my Rurouni Kenshin syndrome.
This fic is dedicated to:
Atashi no Sensei to tomodachi(--My teacher and friend), Lianne Sentar.
She rocks man! And it's all her fault...I mean it's thanks to her that
i'm such a huge esca fan!! heh heh...
Well, I'm off to go laugh at all Hotohori's funny hats in my FY manga...
Mata ne!!
Sailor Red
Escaflowne belongs to a whole buncha people...um, Bandai, Sunrise...
I'm so bad with disclaimers...This fic is copyright Sailor Red,
August 2001. ^_^
back into writing...but I'm going to college in the fall and really
need the practice. So I'm back from my hiatus to write again!
It's an escaflowne fic! Yay! I've wanted to write one forever...
Well, Enjoy!
Escape From Pain
by Sailor Red
Discalmer: Escaflowne does not belong to me. Suing me is not cool,
number one, and two, I work at a DONUT SHOP...so all ya'd get is
a coffee and a bagel...no cream cheese...I'm cheap.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It had become painfully evident that Hitomi would never be
able to go back. Her encounter four years ago with strange people
and a war torn world could never again be repeated. Not that she
wanted to find that place in such chaos ever again, but the people
who had throughly changed her life were people she could not forget.
She missed them terribly. The swordsman who loved her most of all.
She had become horribly lonely lately. Her best friend had
married her boyfriend a month ago and had since moved to America...
the man who could have been hers if she hadn't have played the
tragic heroine. Not that she wanted him. There was someone she
loved far more than him, however she had given that man up as well.
He had told her she could stay. It would be "all right"
with him if she stayed in his country and didn't go back to Tokyo.
However, she missed her family, her friends, her world. Now that
Hitomi was in college, her family seen only on major holidays, and
her best friend, Yukari, happily married to Amano-sempai and living
in some strange place called New England, she was lonely. She did
not want to be here. She wished she was there, that that blessed
beam of light would fly her back to Gaea, back to her friends:
Merle, Millerna, Allen...and Van. Van she wanted to see again most
of all.
She found herself pondering the likelyhood of ever getting
back. She figured that there had to be only a slim chance of doing
so. It had to be possible; she knew that anything and everything
was. Most likely, it would be more difficult, as she no longer
possessed her pendant. Yet if "Isaac" could do it without a medium,
she could as well. She just hoped she would't have to be on her
deathbed to do it.
How? Suddenly an idea crossed her mind. Her tarot cards.
Maybe they could give her the answer. She walked to her closet,
opened it and pulled out an old shoebox. Inside were notes written
in between Yukari and herself, pictures from highschool, and of
course, her tarot cards. She smiled when she saw the familiar deck:
blue background, and on the foreground, an orange shaded penticle.
The cards almost seemed to dare her to pick them up and use them;
she had told everyone, including herself that she never would again.
She hesitated for only a moment, then brought them to her
desk, shuffling them and placing them down in the familiar Celtic
Cross spread. She studied them carefully. It was hard to do a
reading on herself. One tended to confuse what one wanted the cards
to say with what the cards actually said.
She didn't get very far into the reading when she was
interupted by a vision. Her grandmother was staring at her.
"My, how you've grown, Hitomi!" The woman smiled. Hitomi
was frozen in shock. "So you want to go back to Gaea, my dear? I
believe you already know how!"
"Demo, obaa-chan! I gave your pendant to Van!"
"There is always more than one way to solve a problem, Hitomi.
It's just that most people don't want to step outside of tradition,
because they're used to the old ways. You don't need that pendant
anymore. Do you understand yet? It's just like dowsing..."
Hitomi's eyes lit up.
"You mean? Is it that simple?" Hitomi's grandmother smiled
and faded away. "Arigatou, Obaa-chan." Hitomi grinned. She
understood. It was so easy! She herself had told Van how to do this
at one time...
With practice in dowsing, after a while, you don't need the
pendant anymore, but you could still use the ability you practiced
with it. She had learned to find things and find her way through
things doing this before. So all she had to do was picture the
pendant and wish to be in Gaea...and she'd get there! So easy, and
yet it had taken her so long to figure it out! She ran to her closet
and grabbed her duffel bag to throw some clothes in. She also packed
pictures of her friends and family. She didn't think she was going
to come back this time. She hoped she wouldn't have to.
Closing her eyes, she tried to envision the pendant. It
was like riding a bicycle...she got the image in her mind's eye
almost right away. Gaea, Austuria, Fanelia, Merle, Millerna,
Celena, Allen, Van. She let pictures of familiar faces and places
dance under closed eyelids. She slowly felt a warmth around her,
and opened her eyes. She was bathed in light.
She was going back.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lightning struck, rain fell, winds blew cruelly battering trees.
In the midst of the storm, a single beam of light was left unnoticed.
Hitomi grimmiced when she touched down, instantly soaked to the bone.
"MO!" she yelled in aggravation. She looked around for shelter,
but there didn't seem to be any in sight. There came a voice.
"Who's there?" A familiar voice...one in which Hitomi could not
place. "I asked you a question!!" The voice yelled. "Who's there?!" Now
the feminine voice growled. Hitomi took a step back, ready to run if
need be. The person to whom the voice belonged stepped out, fur
standing up on end. Fur? Now that she could see the woman more clearly,
she could note her cat-like features. Could it be? The woman was taller
than she remembered...but it had been a few years...and Hitomi herself
had grown....
"Merle?" The woman's eyes narrowed.
"What? How did you... who are you?!" Hitomi smiled at Merle's confusion
and stepped forward. Merle jumped back in shock. Tears started forming
at the corner of her eyes.
"Hitomi? Hitomi? Oh, Thank GOD! Thank god you've come back!!!" The cat
girl started wailing.
"Merle, What's wrong?" Merle suddenly stopped crying. Fear lit her
eyes.
"Hitomi." She whispered. "Walk slowly behind these bushes. Move it!"
"Nani?"
"Just do it, quick, before they see us!" Merle whispered fervently, as
both of them slipped behind the shrubs. "Now be quiet!"
----
"She went in here!" Came a voice.
"Hurry! If the boss finds out we let one of the King's advisors get
out of Fanelia, we'll be better off dead!"
"If that stupid cat girl gets to Austuria and finds the boss..."
"BAKA! What if she hears you?!"
"She's probably long gone by now, anyway."
"We HAVE to find her. Let's go!!"
----
"So I was right." Merle said. "Their leader is in Austuria."
"Merle, what's going on?"
"I'll tell you later. Right now we have to get out of this rain." she
motioned to Hitomi. "Let's go." Merle jumped onto all fours and started
running. Hitomi sprinted after her. They ran through the thistle and
low growing branches ignoring all of the scratches that they were
getting as they ran through their natural obsticles. When they got to
a cave, Merle stopped. "This must be it." Merle told Hitomi, motioning
her to go with her inside of the shelter. "Ruhm told me about this place
about a month ago. It's not on any maps and it's a pain in the butt to
get to, so nobody really knows about it. It's the safest place right
now." She sighed and looked at all the injurys she and Hitomi had
gotten in their run. "Good thing I brought my first aid stuff." She
threw some antiseptic to Hitomi, who caught it, and stared at her.
"Alright, Merle, can I get some answers now?"
"Yeah." The cat girl sighed and sat down on a rock.
"Okay, first off, you seemed a little TOO happy to see me. Plus those
people...what were they talking about?"
"Here goes. Listen up, ya freaky foreigner, 'cause I'm only gonna
explain this once." Hitomi threw the antiseptic bottle at Merle's
head.
"Baka neko!" Merle laughed.
"Watch it Hitomi-chan, or you're gonna need that bottle again." Hitomi
sighed and sat down on the ground. "Here goes. About a week after we
got Fanelia up and running again, people came there to live. Everything's
fine and wonderful. Then we get what seems to be mini civil wars. People
are fighting over the stupidest things. However, what Van-sama and I
found out...was that those incidents were only skin deep. There was a
bigger plot behind it. Ya see, some of the people who moved in were
former residents of the Zaibach empire, and had a grudge against
Van-sama. They were trying to destroy Fanelia from the inside. After
the war, they didn't have much in the way of military power, so this
was the only way that they could do it. Inside information told us
that the one pulling the strings was in Austuria. So that's where I'm
going." Hitomi gulped.
"Why isn't Van with you?" Merle shifted in discomfort.
"You know, this rock isn't exactly soft, is it? I think I'll go sit
on my bag..."
"Merle?! Why are you avoiding the question?"
"Van-sama's sick." Hitomi felt her heart stop.
"What do you mean 'sick'?"
"About a week ago, Van-sama started complaining about a pain in his
side. The doctors checked it out, and couldn't find anything wrong.
Then all of a sudden he passed out. He hasn't woken up in weeks. The
doctors...they can't..." Merle started crying. "They can't help him."
"Merle..." Hitomi started, but couldn't say anything as the cat girl's
words hit her. The doctors can't help him. Which means...she started
sobbing. "I...is Van gonna...Is Van gonna die?"
"He...He might. Unless we...we can figure out what's going on..."
Hitomi felt the world start to spin around her.
"He might."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the midnight shadows that crept around a beautifully adorned palace
room, a woman sat, playing with a doll, stroking it's midnight hair.
She laughed at the doll in her hands. She took a sewing needle, put
the tip in the flame of the candle and poked it into the doll's side.
"Moeru" She smiled. "Vaaaan!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To be Continued...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author's Notes:
MWAHAHAHAAA!! Now, after making all of you lovely people wait so long
for this to come out, I've decided to turn it into a multiparter.
Why? I have no idea why! Actually, this was first a six page tiny
fic and only had Hitomi come back and reunite with Van. But that's
too boring. You see, this is what happens with me when I type
something up on a typewriter or write something out on paper first
and THEN go and type it up on a computer. For some reason my fics
come out longer and more detailed. Plus I love putting charaters
through bad situations. I'm evil, ne? My only exception to this
wierd First draft second draft rule was "From Konan to the Moon"
which ended up with a lot of plot holes because I rushed it
at the end. Bad Sailor Red. I'll just have to think up a sequal
to it some day. Which shouldn't be too hard, because most of it
was psycho humor, so pulling some hairbrained scheme to start it
up again will be a piece of cake. *sigh*
This is a fic that I'm having quite a lot of fun with. Though it's
not as humorous as I originally planned. Actually It's kinda dark.
SORRY!!! I still throw humor in there. I just have to! Call it
my Rurouni Kenshin syndrome.
This fic is dedicated to:
Atashi no Sensei to tomodachi(--My teacher and friend), Lianne Sentar.
She rocks man! And it's all her fault...I mean it's thanks to her that
i'm such a huge esca fan!! heh heh...
Well, I'm off to go laugh at all Hotohori's funny hats in my FY manga...
Mata ne!!
Sailor Red
Escaflowne belongs to a whole buncha people...um, Bandai, Sunrise...
I'm so bad with disclaimers...This fic is copyright Sailor Red,
August 2001. ^_^