Don't own Esca……
Chapter 11: Forgotten Memories
Draken ran quickly threw the halls searching furiously for the way they came. Van just followed being dragged behind.
"Help me find a way out, VAN!!!" Draken yelled at Van.
Noises seemed to come closer as they re-entered the hall again. Little metal pans clashed to the ground like thunder echoing from out of the black hole which surrounded them. Draken searched franticly around him angry and scared out of his mind. Van stood in though deep thought, he went to far. Out of the darkness shadows were moving.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS THE DOOR?!?!?!" Draken began to panic not wanting to be in the same room as Van.
Draken ran up to a door……
"Van………..Van……Van wake up."
Van slowly opened his eyes to a clear sky filled with sailing clouds floating by on a spring day. The air cold and fresh against his cheek. He could feel the air…..The smells were incredible….
"Your finally awake."
He moved his arm to cover his eyes thinking he was going to die. He was in the sun? Is wasn't burning him? He stopped to think about what was going on he felt the urge to movie. The grass was firmly in the ground and felt soft. The rustle of grass with the wind created its own symphony. It was not tall but simply high enough to ruff against each other and create its sound. He breathed in smelling lavender and peppermint.
Two blue eyes came in to view above him gazing softly down upon him. The trees were not to far from him he saw something move and then someone slipping away from him, he had lost a comfortable warmth. He turned to see who it was, but come to find himself staring at a girl in a small white dress running bear foot. The dress looked like a simple southern dress laced in white. Lavender flowers entangled in her hair as a design.
The surrounding around him darkened as he watched her small form run. She glowed a light white color and laughed a soft sweet laugh like luke warm honey. He watched in aw of it all, as he did he started to run after her in to the darkness.
"Come BACK…..DON'T LEAVE ME!!!" He yelled tripping and falling.
"Van…..Van!!"
Van opened his eyes looking at a glowing figure. He squinted his eyes trying to adjust to the glow around the figure.
"Hitomi?" "Van….Help me remember….You must remember too…." "Hitomi…is that you?"
His eyes started to adjust, soft blue eyes glistened down upon his face. Van reached up to tough Hitomi's face. A hand stopped him bringing it close to her heart. He wished never to let go, her pulse mesmerized him, the warmth sent shivers of pleasure threw him. He gripped tighter fearing to let go.
"Be careful….Remember Van…Remember please." "Remember what?!"
A black object came into view on Hitomi's forehead with a clacking sound. The hammer was pulled back on Draken's handgun.
"Back away from him….or I'll shoot ye dead."
Van felt her hand let go of his as she pulled away from him, van felt anger begin to rage up inside. He did not let it out. Van sat up quickly from laying on the ground his head had been in Hitomi's lap. He glared at Draken but then turned seeing white feathers float with her.
"Draken I am not you enemy." "SHUT UP YOU BITCH!!!! You said that when you were holding my brothers bloody corps." "He was already dead." "Go to hell…"
He pulled the trigger the bullet sliding out of the chamber, twisting threw the air. Hitomi stood waiting for the bullet. Van looked a bit shocked and started to moved to push her out of the way. She had her eyes closed for a moment.
"No."
She snapped her eyes open as the word was said. She sent a shock threw the room making the bullet fly back a little dropping, causing Van and Dranken to fly back a little. Dryden came running in but was blasted back.
"I will not allow such toys to hurt me."
Hitomi's other attitude started to come back it was as if her old and new personalities and memories started to come back. Her wings flinched back. The tips of each feather was not dipped black. Van growled a bit for he had hit his head when he flew back a bit. Hitomi covered her head for a moment.
"Van you can't save me no matter what you do…You always mess everything up…."
He growled low, Dryden stood up and ran over to her pulling out a needle in hand and jabbed it perfectly into her arm. She smirked.
"Hello Dryden… Miss me."
He glared up at her but saw a side of her that she wasn't hiding. She was hurt by something….
"I will always keep remembering Dryden. You can't stop what I know….You can't stop the meetings between Van and I. No matte how many times you may erase both of our memories….Stop being afraid of the out comes….."
"Grrrrr… SHUT UP!!!!"
She bent down her hair casting a shadow over her face.
"He is back……."
Dryden had injected her with the serum as he backed up he glared at her now dulling eyes.
"To bad you'll never know now."
Dryden backed away realizing his mistake now. He needed to know, what happened to make her switch. He turned away to a near by medical table and kicked it clear off its stance. Van was confused, angry, and felt nothing some how at the same time. He wanted to know more…he wanted to know what she was talking about. He remember her for years going after him, hunting him but could only remember back to when he first picked the neighborhood for his feeding ground…..
Dryden picked her up and started to carry her out. The others followed. Van cough a feather and gained a vision.
A girl in the a basement tied up and blood shriving and scared. She saw her mother upon the bed tired up already dead and the smell reeking the air. She struggled to get free loosening the not so well ties upon her wrist. She snatched a locket and crept down the stairs. The television was on and a bottle was tossed to the side. She snuck off the side making her way to the kitchen. Out the back door. She did not care about the screen door slamming. She ran dropping part of the locket and turning to see a man….
Van had held his breath threw the vision. He couldn't believe Hitomi was the same girl from the house…He wondered how she had gotten better, how she was fixed. This only made him want to beg Dryden not to erase her memories. Van couldn't loose this girl now. Now was his chance to find out what she was talking about. He saw one of the clean up guys come in with zip locks and gloves. Van stopped the man.
"You see these feathers"
The man nodded.
"Make sure you have them sent to me." "Yes sir."
Right now on his mind was making sure Dryden didn't and wouldn't erase he memories….
Van decided to chance a risk.
"Dryden…."
"What" Dryden said coldly.
"Don't erase her memories….try and convince anyone that she is holding information don't let them rid her of her memories."
"That will cause us to do away with your to when we were getting on the boat."
He winced back a bit. This would cause him forget what he leaned, she was the person he started to care for in the past…. It raked his mind the past few years what had happened to her. Now he knew.
"Here is the secret we never told you. She was never altered accept her memories. She was created by someone brought back there were signs of her body being under stress and saying it shouldn't be but she is. We lost track of her after we found enough in formation from about this doctors experiments. We…We aren't a loud to mention to her all he truths. Simply cause the hitomi you know should be dead and should be locked up in a cage. She is what everyone calls the abomination."
Van gazed at Dryden as if to say no that can't be, it was horrify to know. He knew it was strange that Hitomi looked similar to the girl and that she had some mystery to her. But the abomination…It made him detest her, some where in him he wished her dead. He didn't know where but…
"I am going to erase your memory up to that point Van. She will remember. Your going to be bitter as hell to her."
Van's head was sinking low his raven hair covered his cold look. Dryden stopped and turned to him and saw this.
"Dam….why didn't you kill her. She reeks of shouldn't of this world. Like anyone would say she should be dead." "Sadly you have had your memory erased to many times to understand." "Understand what that I was falling for a toy someone made." "His daughter…..in which your father helped in this project." "Lies…" "Believe what you want she always wanted to live and I kept her that way when she feel into my care."
Dryden set her down in the back seat. Van looked over at her with mixed emotions, angry at the fact she was not a creation of god anymore. She was a lab rat, a lab rat that as he recalled from what he knew of her had stole his father away. She was the one taking all the time from his father.
"….The end of it all"
Van looked up at Dryden.
"What?!?"
Dryden placed his hand over Van's eyes, a flash came forth. Every inch of the moment slowed van felt himself fall but stop on a body. His eyes opened.
"What the…Where am I…."
Van looked at Dryden with disgust.
"Why in gods name was I leaning on you?"
Dryden gave him a very mellow dry look also but with more distaste in his manor towards Van.
"Just get in the fucking car."
The cars piled into the hotel parking lot, a team had been sent to clean up all remains left. Some had been sent back to be examined. Van had been in another car with Merle. She kept bugging Van what had been the matter. He would no answer.
"What happened between you and Hitomi?" "That wench…What in hell makes you think I care about the huntress?"
Merle tilted her head to the side.
"You were being nicer to her now your not, Lord Van what has gotten into you?"
"Just leave me be.."
Hitomi began to open her eyes she found the dark having to adjust to. She sat up quickly, a bit to quickly. She had hear Dryden's conversation. She remembered everything, she gripped her head as it ached three times over. She couldn't believe what was happening. War raged on with in her whole body, as she went rigged from a fiery burn pulsing threw her back. She slammed down on the seat and started screaming in bloody pain. The car pulled over as fast as it could. The man with in the drivers seat got out and ran to the door, as the man in the passengers seat came around to the other door. The opened the as one tried holding her down the other tried to jab a needle in her.
She kicked the man at her feet sending him into the other car, the man holding her down was rammed in to the outside door way. She had cracked his skull open, he let go after falling over. She started to get up from the car seat, as this happened, Dryden came over and laid on top of her. Putting his whole weight on her.
"Hitomi.."
"Get off!!" She yelled. Her back arched again as did, he pushed her back down. She yelled a gripping her head once more from pain.
"HITOMI FIGHT IT"
Her hands came done on him digging in to his back. He reached up and grabbed her head to make her look at him. He got her to look with tears gushing from her eyes, she looked wild like a un-caged animal.
Draken piled out of the car as they saw the man hit their car. Draken ran over to the other car. Van and Merle sat still in the car, she was worried. She had started to like Hitomi, but so much was going a skew. She started to jump out of the car, Van pulled her back in.
"What are you doing?" "Getting out Van. Hitomi looks like to be in trouble." "Let that tool suffer."
Merle's fur flustered up with anger as he said those words. She turned and slapped him leaving a little of her claw marks behind drawling blood. Van turned shocked.
"You have no shame do y….." "Merle come here we need your help." Draken yelled from the other car.
Merle jumped out of the car in a mad dash to the other one. Dryden came out of the car his arm bleeding furiously, she jumped back in shock. She was beginning to wonder what in gods name was happening.
"Merle…I noticed in the car before our incident you were wondering what was wrong with Van. I erased his memory…he wanted her to keep hers. But at the rate this is going. I don't think I can let her keep them……"
Merle went into the car seeing Hitomi still thrashing around and crying, she went into the car. She took Hitomi into her arms, breaking contact with Draken. Hitomi just curled up to Merle.
"Shhhh….Hitomi just fight what ever it is……" "I am never going to be with in, I will always continue to live as I don't want." "Then make him remember…."
Hitomi looked up at Merle shaking, she just smiled softly down at her. She rocked Hitomi back an forth.
"I remember the day you started to chase him. He detested you…but somewhere deep down inside it thrilled him. He would bad mouth you but you could see in his eyes that there was happiness written in them. Even though the recent memories are gone where he started to show his affection is gone they will come again. Just wait….just wait….I would rather see him happy with someone like you than any other. I used to be so jealous the first few years, do you remember how I was to you."
Hitomi nodded and felt Merle rock her and soothing her back.
"I still am but I rather it be this way….Some where in his past it was you…." "Thank you."
Merle looked down a bit surprised but smiled again seeing Hitomi clinging like a child to her looking to falling a sleep. Merle looked up at Dryden.
"Leave her with me…"
Dryden nodded and went back to the other car reached in calling one of the other teams for an ambulance. He looked over to Van, with a bit of greff in his eyes.
"Help me will yea."
Van nodded as he moved out of the car to help clean up Dryden's arm. He went over to the car Hitomi was in and glanced in Merle was still rocking her a bit as Hitomi laid sprawled out. Merle looked to him hoping with a plea in her eyes.
"Van…"
His gaze softened a bit .
"I'll take over your position."
Merle smiled as he said this. They switched places as he held her a bit. He didn't hold her just placed his hand where Merle's hand had been and let Hitomi's head lay on his lap. Merle ran off to see Dryden. Van began to feel very….akward. Some how to him it felt right to be there but at the same time it was wrong in his mind.
"en…..Van…..remember….please……"
He glared down upon her.
'Remember….Remember what?' He though.
She gripped his hand tightly.
"Van…."
To be continued….
Sorry for the late late late late update. High school is hard with the whole 3 core classes but I will keep up. I been busy with the exchange student program set up so don't mind me when I post late like this. I hope you all enjoy. I will be writing more soon. Love you all later!
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