ETERNITY BREAKS II
AN: I forgot to mention the song Hitomi was singing in the last chapter. It's called Shake, Shake Senora by Harry Belafonte, who sang some really great songs that everyone knows! Such as, The Banana Boat Song (Deyo) and the Lion Sleeps Tonight. Very fun music. Anyway, I'm curious as to way a lot of authors will say read and review is the only way to be a nice reader. . ? I think of it this way, I write because I like to. I like to know if people like what I write but if you don't think my work is worth anymore time to review after reading it then don't. Anyway, on with Chapter Four.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Escaflowne or anything else in here! We're talking major weight of copy right!
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Chapter Four: Syonara, Hitomi.
It was an exhausting hour and a half going around to find Usagi, Setsuna, and Luna. It was especially hard to keep it descrete, but with Van temporarily crippled it was hard to avoid the guards. They met in a private room where Folken excused the guards. He would have abrogated their duties around that main hall but with the recent events coming around, he could only dismiss them from the room area.
"So, why are we here?" Usagi asked.
"To be away from preying eyes." Folken said. "I am Folken, by the way."
Usagi smiled, "nice to meet you."
"Indeed. I have already met your friends." He sat down, his guests. "It was most terrifying seeing Hitomi attack Van like that." He began.
"Oh, I know what you mean. Totally. She is so hard to beat down! I try to shield but that doesn't work and as soon as Hitomi backs off Ami's on my case with her stupid laser attack." Usagi blurted out. Folken was thourghouly shocked, his eyes darted from Hitomi to Ami in clear confusion.
"Usagi, we're not talking about that video game now." Ami told her in a somewhat harsh tone.
"Sorry."
"Folken, you'll have to excuse my friend here. She tends to bring up topics at inappropriate times." Ami glared at her, Usagi sank into her chair.
"Uh huh . . ." He trailed off.
"Anyway, the most distressing news is that Bob is back." Setsuna said, glaring at the two inners.
"In short, just to save an annoyingly long explanation, Bob is ten times stronger than he was last time. He told us that he wanted to get revenge for his master, and possibly himself. His power is super natural and therefore have the power to change his form, come back here and try to kill Van."
"But why do all that?" Folken asked.
"To create confusion!" Usagi yelled.
"It worked. ." Hitomi agreed.
"Well, now that we've all assumed that was the main reason, we should get a proper disguise for Hitomi now." Setsuna said.
"Wow, you're good at knowing all this stuff." Hitomi said.
"Yeah, I know. I can't help it. Now sit down, shut up, and let us see what we have to work with." She told Hitomi, who reluctantly obeyed.
After a few minutes of considering what to make Hitomi look like, she decided it best to make Hitomi a guy.
"I'm thinking no." Hitomi told them.
"Why not, you could totally fit the profile!" Usagi said.
"Yes, but I'm not a man! What is wrong with you people!?" Hitomi almost yelled at them.
"What is wrong with us? Such a good question, Hitomi." Ami mocked Hitomi's last efforts to save her gender.
"Come on, you won't be a gender-bender for that long anyway." Usagi was the convincing voice. Hitomi was ready to go along with it. . . sort of.
"Ok, what are you going to do to me?"
"Well, your hair is perfect the way it is, we just have to get you into some different clothes and find a way to . . ." Setsuna trailed off in slight embarrassment of what else would be done to Hitomi.
"Find a way to . . . ?" Hitomi urged Setsuna to continue her thought.
"Oh, never mind that part. We'll just dress you up as some sort of swordsman or something." Setsuna decided.
Folken thought about that. "It could work."
"Oh yeah?" Hitomi asked.
"It could work out rather well, in fact. The problem might be that you have no idea how to fight with a sword, right?"
"Yes that's true . . ." Hitomi didn't like where this was going.
"Then we'll just have to teach you!" Folken shouted with almost pure joy. He looked like a kid who finally got his parents to agree to let him go to Disneyland or something like that. Folken's utter and swift change in mood made Hitomi feel even more nervous about where this was all going to end up.
"This is going to hurt, isn't it?" Hitomi asked with a sinking feeling.
"If you hold still it won't hurt that much." Setsuna told her. It still didn't sound like a very good idea, but Hitomi was a wanted woman and there was no other way to go about it but a disguise.
Night fell as it normally does at the end of the day, when the sun sinks below the hills and mountains and the stars come out to play. Van was supposed to be in bed, resting. Being a stubborn as he was, he was out on the balcony looking up at the stars. One question ran through his mind, "why?" He could not believe that the person he cared for most would come back to hurt him. He had convinced himself several times that day, while he lay in bed, that it couldn't have been Hitomi. Never in a million years would Hitomi hurt anyone. And yet he came back to wondering that it probably was possible for someone as gentle as she to turn into a mad-man and start killing people all around her. For some reason still, the mental image in his mind of Hitomi doing such a thing could not take form. Therefore the person who attacked him must have been an impostor of some sort. The next question that danced around his mind was "who?" Who could it be? Did he have anymore enemies now?
A knock at the door jolted Van from his thoughts, before he could get a single word out, five strange people dashed into the room and shut the door as quickly and quietly as possible.
"What the?"
"Van, hi." Hitomi was surprised. Just a little. Van looked to be in much, much better shape than everyone in the castle made him out to be. In fact he only had a small patch on his head covered with a bandage.
"Hitomi, now is not the time to pull a Yoda." Ami commented and walked briskly to Van's closet and started digging out some clothes they could use.
"Huh? Hitomi, don't come near me!" He jumped onto his bed and covered himself with the bed covers like a frightened five-year-old.
"Van, I heard what happened to you. It wasn't me that was here. You have to believe me, I would never want to kill you." Hitomi said. Van peeked from the covers.
"Really?" He said, he knew that she was right, but certain events lead to his mind regressing.
"Oh, yeah. I can vouch for her if I have to." Usagi said. Setsuna, by this time was helping Ami pick out some things that didn't look so Van-ish.
"Go ahead then. Prove it to me." Van said pulling the covers from his head.
"Well, we know because while you were getting attacked by the fake Hitomi, the real Hitomi was beating the snot out of me and Ami." Usagi explained, still in video game mode.
"Hitomi!" Van jumped out of bed and in a flash had the tip of his sword at her chest.
"Usagi! Shut up! You're not helping!" Ami yelled, clearly upset with Usagi being so careless with her words.
"Van, don't point that thing at me," she said, taking her hand and gently pushing the blade away. "You could put someone's eye out, ya know."
"You almost took my life out." He said, sheathing his sword.
"No I didn't. According to Ms. Blond back there, I almost killed her." Hitomi said with a rather bit of distaste.
"Do you think you'll fit into these?" Ami asked, holding up a green shirt and a type of coat with a black color and yellow cuffs.
"What are you doing?" Van demanded.
"We're trying to find a good disguise for Hitomi." Ami explained.
"What? Why?"
"Because she was framed, that's why. She did not harm you, someone else who dressed up as Hitomi tried to kill you. If they had succeeded they might have gotten both you and Hitomi." Ami finished.
"You lost me." Van sat down in a chair near the door.
"It's simple really, all the look-alike had to do was show his/her face. I think that they wanted you to actually be dead, and didn't succeed. It was enough to get Hitomi in trouble, but as long as you're alive Hitomi has a chance." Setsuna did her fill-in-the-gape job rather well.
"It just so happens that our chances for beating this thing back increases if Hitomi pulls a she-male." Ami explained.
"I'm getting insulted every turn of the way." Hitomi said, with a displeased tone.
"Ok...so, who do you think did it?"
"Remember Bob, Van?" Folken asked.
"Yes."
"According to our dear friends from the Mystic Moon, he's back. On a vengeance trip no less."
"Oh." Van got up and walked Hitomi over the closet.
"Though, I must say," Usagi began, "you're acting rather well for someone who was near death."
"Uh, thanks."
They went through all of Van's clothes until they found something that could work. A green shirt, similar to Van's. They went through Hitomi's duffel bag and got out a pair of blue jeans, which would work a little better than Van or Folken's pants. They found a kind of jacket/coat that would work to cover more of Hitomi's top half.
"You know," Hitomi said, "I feel the whole green shirt thing is so cliché."
Ami paused for a moment to consider. "Yeah, I suppose you're right." The blue haired genius pulled out some scissors and cut the two predominant hairs on Hitomi's head off.
"My hair!" Hitomi shrieked.
"Oh please, it's not going to make a big difference anyway. Besides, most people can recognize you with that than with out. And anyway, you'll be wearing a hat." Ami explained.
Ami took some glue she found in the infamous bag and dripped a couple of drops on the hairs.
"Guess what, Hitomi!"
"Uh oh...er, what?"
"You're going to have a mustache!" Ami quickly slapped on the hairs just above her upper lip before Hitomi had a chance to defend herself. It did the trick, Hitomi now officially looked like a man.
"Why me?" She asked as Usagi toped the disguise off with a Robin Hood type hat.
"It doesn't always have to be about you, ya know." Luna said. "Perhaps we should get rid of those shoes too." She noticed Hitomi still had her Nikes on.
"You took away my dignity and my gender, you're NOT taking my shoes!" Hitomi shouted, and tried to jump from the chair, but Setsuna held her firmly in place.
"I think I have some forest boots that might fit her." Van said, reentering the room.
"Ok, get those!" Van did as Usagi exclaimed and found the boots in his little closet space. Hitomi caved in and untied her Nikes and tried on the boots. They fit well enough, except for some toe space at the end of the boot, but wasn't' enough to stop her from walking around comfortably.
"Wow, you really don't look like Hitomi anymore." Van said.
"Gee, thanks. I feel so special now. By the way, where are the guards?" Hitomi asked.
"Oh, I dismissed them." He told her.
"Ok."
"Why did you want to know?"
"I was just wondering why anyone didn't come in while I was shouting "no" at everything." She explained.
"I see." Van said.
"Hey, Hitomi." The cherry Bunny said, "you look a lot like the Sheriff of Knottingham, except without the cape."
"Thanks..."
"We should make up a cool name for you now." Usagi continued.
"Such as?"
"Such as . . . Link!"
"Link never had a mustache." Hitomi said flatly.
"I know, I know. But do the people of Gaea know?" Usagi had actually made some sense. No one knew of the joy that was the Legend of Zelda. And so, they would begin their journey that night, and Hitomi would be known as Link.
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It took me long enough to come out with Chapter 4. Been busy with school. This week is my last week then I'm on summer break. Hallelujah! Whether or not they actually discussed TLOZ in either Escaflowne or Sailor Moon does not mean that I can't add it in. Besides, I like the Zelda games.
Link was kind of a poor choice of names for someone who doesn't really look like Link. Oh well, it'll stick for now. I'll get out the next chapter as soon as possible.
AN: I forgot to mention the song Hitomi was singing in the last chapter. It's called Shake, Shake Senora by Harry Belafonte, who sang some really great songs that everyone knows! Such as, The Banana Boat Song (Deyo) and the Lion Sleeps Tonight. Very fun music. Anyway, I'm curious as to way a lot of authors will say read and review is the only way to be a nice reader. . ? I think of it this way, I write because I like to. I like to know if people like what I write but if you don't think my work is worth anymore time to review after reading it then don't. Anyway, on with Chapter Four.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Escaflowne or anything else in here! We're talking major weight of copy right!
***
Chapter Four: Syonara, Hitomi.
It was an exhausting hour and a half going around to find Usagi, Setsuna, and Luna. It was especially hard to keep it descrete, but with Van temporarily crippled it was hard to avoid the guards. They met in a private room where Folken excused the guards. He would have abrogated their duties around that main hall but with the recent events coming around, he could only dismiss them from the room area.
"So, why are we here?" Usagi asked.
"To be away from preying eyes." Folken said. "I am Folken, by the way."
Usagi smiled, "nice to meet you."
"Indeed. I have already met your friends." He sat down, his guests. "It was most terrifying seeing Hitomi attack Van like that." He began.
"Oh, I know what you mean. Totally. She is so hard to beat down! I try to shield but that doesn't work and as soon as Hitomi backs off Ami's on my case with her stupid laser attack." Usagi blurted out. Folken was thourghouly shocked, his eyes darted from Hitomi to Ami in clear confusion.
"Usagi, we're not talking about that video game now." Ami told her in a somewhat harsh tone.
"Sorry."
"Folken, you'll have to excuse my friend here. She tends to bring up topics at inappropriate times." Ami glared at her, Usagi sank into her chair.
"Uh huh . . ." He trailed off.
"Anyway, the most distressing news is that Bob is back." Setsuna said, glaring at the two inners.
"In short, just to save an annoyingly long explanation, Bob is ten times stronger than he was last time. He told us that he wanted to get revenge for his master, and possibly himself. His power is super natural and therefore have the power to change his form, come back here and try to kill Van."
"But why do all that?" Folken asked.
"To create confusion!" Usagi yelled.
"It worked. ." Hitomi agreed.
"Well, now that we've all assumed that was the main reason, we should get a proper disguise for Hitomi now." Setsuna said.
"Wow, you're good at knowing all this stuff." Hitomi said.
"Yeah, I know. I can't help it. Now sit down, shut up, and let us see what we have to work with." She told Hitomi, who reluctantly obeyed.
After a few minutes of considering what to make Hitomi look like, she decided it best to make Hitomi a guy.
"I'm thinking no." Hitomi told them.
"Why not, you could totally fit the profile!" Usagi said.
"Yes, but I'm not a man! What is wrong with you people!?" Hitomi almost yelled at them.
"What is wrong with us? Such a good question, Hitomi." Ami mocked Hitomi's last efforts to save her gender.
"Come on, you won't be a gender-bender for that long anyway." Usagi was the convincing voice. Hitomi was ready to go along with it. . . sort of.
"Ok, what are you going to do to me?"
"Well, your hair is perfect the way it is, we just have to get you into some different clothes and find a way to . . ." Setsuna trailed off in slight embarrassment of what else would be done to Hitomi.
"Find a way to . . . ?" Hitomi urged Setsuna to continue her thought.
"Oh, never mind that part. We'll just dress you up as some sort of swordsman or something." Setsuna decided.
Folken thought about that. "It could work."
"Oh yeah?" Hitomi asked.
"It could work out rather well, in fact. The problem might be that you have no idea how to fight with a sword, right?"
"Yes that's true . . ." Hitomi didn't like where this was going.
"Then we'll just have to teach you!" Folken shouted with almost pure joy. He looked like a kid who finally got his parents to agree to let him go to Disneyland or something like that. Folken's utter and swift change in mood made Hitomi feel even more nervous about where this was all going to end up.
"This is going to hurt, isn't it?" Hitomi asked with a sinking feeling.
"If you hold still it won't hurt that much." Setsuna told her. It still didn't sound like a very good idea, but Hitomi was a wanted woman and there was no other way to go about it but a disguise.
Night fell as it normally does at the end of the day, when the sun sinks below the hills and mountains and the stars come out to play. Van was supposed to be in bed, resting. Being a stubborn as he was, he was out on the balcony looking up at the stars. One question ran through his mind, "why?" He could not believe that the person he cared for most would come back to hurt him. He had convinced himself several times that day, while he lay in bed, that it couldn't have been Hitomi. Never in a million years would Hitomi hurt anyone. And yet he came back to wondering that it probably was possible for someone as gentle as she to turn into a mad-man and start killing people all around her. For some reason still, the mental image in his mind of Hitomi doing such a thing could not take form. Therefore the person who attacked him must have been an impostor of some sort. The next question that danced around his mind was "who?" Who could it be? Did he have anymore enemies now?
A knock at the door jolted Van from his thoughts, before he could get a single word out, five strange people dashed into the room and shut the door as quickly and quietly as possible.
"What the?"
"Van, hi." Hitomi was surprised. Just a little. Van looked to be in much, much better shape than everyone in the castle made him out to be. In fact he only had a small patch on his head covered with a bandage.
"Hitomi, now is not the time to pull a Yoda." Ami commented and walked briskly to Van's closet and started digging out some clothes they could use.
"Huh? Hitomi, don't come near me!" He jumped onto his bed and covered himself with the bed covers like a frightened five-year-old.
"Van, I heard what happened to you. It wasn't me that was here. You have to believe me, I would never want to kill you." Hitomi said. Van peeked from the covers.
"Really?" He said, he knew that she was right, but certain events lead to his mind regressing.
"Oh, yeah. I can vouch for her if I have to." Usagi said. Setsuna, by this time was helping Ami pick out some things that didn't look so Van-ish.
"Go ahead then. Prove it to me." Van said pulling the covers from his head.
"Well, we know because while you were getting attacked by the fake Hitomi, the real Hitomi was beating the snot out of me and Ami." Usagi explained, still in video game mode.
"Hitomi!" Van jumped out of bed and in a flash had the tip of his sword at her chest.
"Usagi! Shut up! You're not helping!" Ami yelled, clearly upset with Usagi being so careless with her words.
"Van, don't point that thing at me," she said, taking her hand and gently pushing the blade away. "You could put someone's eye out, ya know."
"You almost took my life out." He said, sheathing his sword.
"No I didn't. According to Ms. Blond back there, I almost killed her." Hitomi said with a rather bit of distaste.
"Do you think you'll fit into these?" Ami asked, holding up a green shirt and a type of coat with a black color and yellow cuffs.
"What are you doing?" Van demanded.
"We're trying to find a good disguise for Hitomi." Ami explained.
"What? Why?"
"Because she was framed, that's why. She did not harm you, someone else who dressed up as Hitomi tried to kill you. If they had succeeded they might have gotten both you and Hitomi." Ami finished.
"You lost me." Van sat down in a chair near the door.
"It's simple really, all the look-alike had to do was show his/her face. I think that they wanted you to actually be dead, and didn't succeed. It was enough to get Hitomi in trouble, but as long as you're alive Hitomi has a chance." Setsuna did her fill-in-the-gape job rather well.
"It just so happens that our chances for beating this thing back increases if Hitomi pulls a she-male." Ami explained.
"I'm getting insulted every turn of the way." Hitomi said, with a displeased tone.
"Ok...so, who do you think did it?"
"Remember Bob, Van?" Folken asked.
"Yes."
"According to our dear friends from the Mystic Moon, he's back. On a vengeance trip no less."
"Oh." Van got up and walked Hitomi over the closet.
"Though, I must say," Usagi began, "you're acting rather well for someone who was near death."
"Uh, thanks."
They went through all of Van's clothes until they found something that could work. A green shirt, similar to Van's. They went through Hitomi's duffel bag and got out a pair of blue jeans, which would work a little better than Van or Folken's pants. They found a kind of jacket/coat that would work to cover more of Hitomi's top half.
"You know," Hitomi said, "I feel the whole green shirt thing is so cliché."
Ami paused for a moment to consider. "Yeah, I suppose you're right." The blue haired genius pulled out some scissors and cut the two predominant hairs on Hitomi's head off.
"My hair!" Hitomi shrieked.
"Oh please, it's not going to make a big difference anyway. Besides, most people can recognize you with that than with out. And anyway, you'll be wearing a hat." Ami explained.
Ami took some glue she found in the infamous bag and dripped a couple of drops on the hairs.
"Guess what, Hitomi!"
"Uh oh...er, what?"
"You're going to have a mustache!" Ami quickly slapped on the hairs just above her upper lip before Hitomi had a chance to defend herself. It did the trick, Hitomi now officially looked like a man.
"Why me?" She asked as Usagi toped the disguise off with a Robin Hood type hat.
"It doesn't always have to be about you, ya know." Luna said. "Perhaps we should get rid of those shoes too." She noticed Hitomi still had her Nikes on.
"You took away my dignity and my gender, you're NOT taking my shoes!" Hitomi shouted, and tried to jump from the chair, but Setsuna held her firmly in place.
"I think I have some forest boots that might fit her." Van said, reentering the room.
"Ok, get those!" Van did as Usagi exclaimed and found the boots in his little closet space. Hitomi caved in and untied her Nikes and tried on the boots. They fit well enough, except for some toe space at the end of the boot, but wasn't' enough to stop her from walking around comfortably.
"Wow, you really don't look like Hitomi anymore." Van said.
"Gee, thanks. I feel so special now. By the way, where are the guards?" Hitomi asked.
"Oh, I dismissed them." He told her.
"Ok."
"Why did you want to know?"
"I was just wondering why anyone didn't come in while I was shouting "no" at everything." She explained.
"I see." Van said.
"Hey, Hitomi." The cherry Bunny said, "you look a lot like the Sheriff of Knottingham, except without the cape."
"Thanks..."
"We should make up a cool name for you now." Usagi continued.
"Such as?"
"Such as . . . Link!"
"Link never had a mustache." Hitomi said flatly.
"I know, I know. But do the people of Gaea know?" Usagi had actually made some sense. No one knew of the joy that was the Legend of Zelda. And so, they would begin their journey that night, and Hitomi would be known as Link.
***
It took me long enough to come out with Chapter 4. Been busy with school. This week is my last week then I'm on summer break. Hallelujah! Whether or not they actually discussed TLOZ in either Escaflowne or Sailor Moon does not mean that I can't add it in. Besides, I like the Zelda games.
Link was kind of a poor choice of names for someone who doesn't really look like Link. Oh well, it'll stick for now. I'll get out the next chapter as soon as possible.