Okay...I've watched like 6 episodes of Escaflowne...ne...so don't
blame me if you dislike how I do this...I mean...geez...6
episodes! I don't know how it ended!!!!
I just found out about this great anime! So don't shoot.
I love SM..now, I also love Escaflowne, Cardcaptor Sakura, and
Digimon....more on the way too...just a guess....
So I'll be writing a wide variety of fanfics ^_^
Minna: *sweatdrop*
Disclaimers to Escaflowne:
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Sunrise, TV Tokyo/Bandai Entertainment,
Inc./Egan Loo. So see people, I DON'T OWN ESCAFLOWNE, although
I'd very much like to! Especially...Van...*sob* why are all the
great guys taken... WAH!!!!!
Kyuuei de Ciel is copyrighted to me, Chibi-Anon.
Any use of this name out of my own story, is prohibited.
Please ask permission from the author (chibi-anon) if
you want to use this name. Thank you.
@)-----
The Legend of a King's Heart
Prologue
Chibi-Anon (chibianon_ymous@hotmail.com)
September 1, 2000
PG 13
No Escaflowne Site...ne...I wish I did ^_~
@)----
A young girl sat in a swing, looking up at the sky. Her name
was Kyuuei de le Ciel. She had wavy silver black hair, that
reached past her shoulders, on the right side, was a thin braid.
Her turquoise eyes seemed to see right through you.
Her aunt, Hitomi Kanzaki, had become her guardian over the
past 5 years. Kyuuei, at the moment, loved spending time with
her aunt. Kyuuei was 15, and her aunt was only, 10 years her
senior. Kyuuei's mother, Hitomi's older sister, Alera, married
Andrew de la Ciel. When Kyuuei had turned 10 years old, her
parents were killed by a drunk driver. (I hate them! drunk
drivers! M.A.D.D. will hopefully win.)
Hitomi was the only relative that Kyuuei had left in the whole
world. She loved her dearly. When she had been really young,
around 5 years old, her aunt had become ill, and fainted.
Before she had the fainting spells, Hitomi would scream in the
middle of the night. Hitomi's family was reputed to have
visions. Kyuuei, hadn't been showing signs of the particular
trait, but there was still some hope. Hitomi's grandmother gave
her a magical crystal pendant, it seemed to improve her skills.
To Kyuuei, her aunt was the most beautiful woman in the world,
and the smartest. Hitomi's brown hair had grown to her
shoulders, and had become a bit curled at the ends. Her green
eyes would shine brightly with mirth. But when she smiled at
Kyuuei, there would always be some degree of sadness in the smile.
Wondering why, she asked her aunt one year. Hitomi scooted her
niece out of the way, with tears in her eyes, telling her to go
out and play on the swings. But this time, Kyuuei finally
figured out why.
"Auntie!!!" Kyuuei leaped out of the swings, smiling brightly.
"Yes, dear? There's no need to shout."
"Gomen ne...ummmm....but I know why you're sad sometimes!"
She sounded like she was 5 years old again...innocence usually
worked.
"Oh?" A note of disbelief and anguish was in Hitomi's voice.
"Yes...I think it's because you aren't married. You must have
had a sweetheart!!! You're a wonderful person....but
something must have happened...something that you nor he could
control." Tears came into Hitomi's eyes.
"In a way dear...in a way...." She fought the flood of tears
that was threatening to come forth. Immediately Kyuuei regretted
her bold statements.
"I'm sorry Auntie....Are you all right?" Hitomi nodded meekly
at her niece.
"I think it's time I gave you something."
"Aunt Hitomi!! Not after what I did!!! It's not even my birth-
day!"
"Well, it is a VERY special occasion." Hitomi's eyes were
not misty anymore, the only evidence of her having ever cried
was the fact that her eyes were a bit red.
As they walked upstairs Kyuuei had a feeling of importance, she
immediately told something that she had wanted to keep a secret,
at first.
"I had a dream last night. It was strange, almost like a
fairytale, like the stories you told me when I was younger.
I was in this garden when a bright light appears and bears me up
to a place in the sky. It was like Earth, and yet, it was not."
"It is a special occasion then." She turned around and had
something clutched in her hands.
"Auntie, no...you can't give me that!!! I'd lose it somewhere!"
"But it is time. As my grandmother passed it on, I so in turn,
pass it to you." Kyuuei waved her hands in the air, trying to
turn back the gift. Hitomi grabbed her flailing right hand and
closed it around the pendant. "It is done."
"I'm still not going to keep it."
"Oh yes you will." said Hitomi firmly.
"...fine..." *crosses fingers*
"And don't cross your fingers."
"Gomen...I will keep it."
"All right. We start lessons tomorrow." She turned to walk out
of the room.
"Lessons?! But it's Saturday tomorrow!!!"
"The perfect time." Then she strode down to the kitchen to make
supper.
"I'm not keeping it, I'm not!!!" Kyuuei resolved to put it in
one of the drawers. "No....she might not see it...then I'd
forget where it was...then I'd get in trouble if I told her."
Her next thought was to place it on the nightstand. "Still no
good, she'll find it too soon, then she'd yell at me for not
keeping it. Argh...I may as well keep it." So Kyuuei slipped it
over her head, hoping to keep it safe.
"Honey! Dinner time!"
"Yes, I'm coming." She washed her hands and preceded down the
stairs.
"I hope you washed your hands."
"I did."
"Good. Now let's eat." Sounded like a good idea. Kyuuei had
her favourite for dessert, strawberry pie. ^_^
~Later that Night~
Kyuuei pointed to the sky, a bright light had emerged from between
the clouds.
"Oh no! Aunt Hitomi!! HELP!!!" But of course her aunt was not
there, she had gone to pick up her journal at home.
The light surrounded Kyuuei, bather her in its ethreal glow. As
it covered her wholly the beam of light shot upwards, taking
the girl upwards into the unknown.
"NANI!!!! It happened again...that strange light...the dream.
It's just like in Auntie's stories. Maybe that's it...I've
been thinking a lot about her stories lately. They're just
going over and over subconsciously in my head, placing ME in
them." Kyuuei seemed to have convinced herself that what she said
was true. But only the Fates would know.
~In the Morning~
"Rise and Shine!" Hitomi called out to her still slumbering
niece. "KYUUEI!!! I made YOUR FAVOURITE!!!"
"Hmmm....???!!!! OH!!! WOW!!! Thanks Aunt Hitomi! You're
my favourite aunt!!!"
"Dear...I'm your only aunt."
"oh...yeah..hehehe...right....but compared to any others...
you're the best and my favourite!!!!"
"Whatever you say honey, whatever you say." Hitomi giggled.
They sat down to breakfast. Kyuuei shovelled the pancakes into
her mouth quickly. "Now that you're done eating...we can
start your lessons." Kyuuei opened her mouth to complain, but
Hitomi stopped her. "I know you don't want to do this on a
Saturday, but it has to be done." They moved out of the dining
room and into the den. Hitomi took out the photo album.
"Kyuuei. There are two things you MUST know."
"Yes, Aunt Hitomi. Don't rely on your fist alone when you're
going to fight someone. No wait...don't use your fists. Think
with your heart, not with your head in most cases." (AN: I'm
setting a very bad example aren't I?)
"No dear. Not those. Two things that have been kept from you
long enough." Kyuuei shook her head not understanding.
"Remember those stories I used to tell you when you were
younger? After my track meet ten years ago?" She nodded,
of course she did....it was around the same time that
she had those dreams. "Well, they weren't exactly stories...
they did happen....to me....up there on GAEA." This was very
hard for Hitomi. How could you tell someone like THAT had truly
happened?
"You're joking, aren't you?"
"No, I'm not....I've never lied to you, just kept half the
truth."
"But..."
"No buts.... I was really with Van from Fanelia...he was...IS
half Draconian....ancestors of the Atlanteans. I did know
Merle, annoying as she was at first, I'll consider her a friend.
Alan and Princess Millerna (Gomen if I spelled her name wrong)
were caught in a love triangle....but now...I pray they are
together. Prince Sheed is Alan's son.... He was such a noble
boy then.....he'd be just a few years older than you I think."
"I can't accept all of those things Auntie...they're too
fictional." She shook her head again....her aunt had wings
in the 'stories'.... Van had wings.... Her Aunt Hitomi had
true wings....and right now...she just didn't see them. Where
were they? Disbelief was what filled her eyes then.
"I know you won't believe me...but you will...."
"And what is the second thing that I needed to know...
hopefully easier to swallow than all of this."
"I don't know...depends on how you look at it... the pendant."
Hitomi opened the album near the middle. "Here." Kyuuei peered
at the picture. There were two people in the picture. Looking
more closely, Kyuuei recognized them.
"The one on the left is you. And the one on the right is
my mother....she used to have long black hair....to her waist.
She has the same colour of eyes you have.....but I knew that.
What's so special about this picture?"
"Look closely.....very closely." Kyuuei searched the picture for
some hidden meaning, something.
"I still don't see anything....nothing...." As she said so
however, her eyes fixed on two things in the picture. "You
both have pendants! Exactly the same, but for one difference,
mum's had a silver chain, and your's was gold." Hitomi nodded.
"Then...what does this mean?....is it...." Why hadn't she
noticed before? Kyuuei drew the pendant from her head. She let
the chain fall free in the air. The stone of the pendant started
to glow in soft tones. The light flickered and the stone
tugged upwards....
@)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)-----
Please no hammers...please!!! I'll try to do another chapter,
for any of my stories..promise...before I have to go!!!
So...please...feed back!!! Good...bad...more good I hope!
Ja ne!
blame me if you dislike how I do this...I mean...geez...6
episodes! I don't know how it ended!!!!
I just found out about this great anime! So don't shoot.
I love SM..now, I also love Escaflowne, Cardcaptor Sakura, and
Digimon....more on the way too...just a guess....
So I'll be writing a wide variety of fanfics ^_^
Minna: *sweatdrop*
Disclaimers to Escaflowne:
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Sunrise, TV Tokyo/Bandai Entertainment,
Inc./Egan Loo. So see people, I DON'T OWN ESCAFLOWNE, although
I'd very much like to! Especially...Van...*sob* why are all the
great guys taken... WAH!!!!!
Kyuuei de Ciel is copyrighted to me, Chibi-Anon.
Any use of this name out of my own story, is prohibited.
Please ask permission from the author (chibi-anon) if
you want to use this name. Thank you.
@)-----
The Legend of a King's Heart
Prologue
Chibi-Anon (chibianon_ymous@hotmail.com)
September 1, 2000
PG 13
No Escaflowne Site...ne...I wish I did ^_~
@)----
A young girl sat in a swing, looking up at the sky. Her name
was Kyuuei de le Ciel. She had wavy silver black hair, that
reached past her shoulders, on the right side, was a thin braid.
Her turquoise eyes seemed to see right through you.
Her aunt, Hitomi Kanzaki, had become her guardian over the
past 5 years. Kyuuei, at the moment, loved spending time with
her aunt. Kyuuei was 15, and her aunt was only, 10 years her
senior. Kyuuei's mother, Hitomi's older sister, Alera, married
Andrew de la Ciel. When Kyuuei had turned 10 years old, her
parents were killed by a drunk driver. (I hate them! drunk
drivers! M.A.D.D. will hopefully win.)
Hitomi was the only relative that Kyuuei had left in the whole
world. She loved her dearly. When she had been really young,
around 5 years old, her aunt had become ill, and fainted.
Before she had the fainting spells, Hitomi would scream in the
middle of the night. Hitomi's family was reputed to have
visions. Kyuuei, hadn't been showing signs of the particular
trait, but there was still some hope. Hitomi's grandmother gave
her a magical crystal pendant, it seemed to improve her skills.
To Kyuuei, her aunt was the most beautiful woman in the world,
and the smartest. Hitomi's brown hair had grown to her
shoulders, and had become a bit curled at the ends. Her green
eyes would shine brightly with mirth. But when she smiled at
Kyuuei, there would always be some degree of sadness in the smile.
Wondering why, she asked her aunt one year. Hitomi scooted her
niece out of the way, with tears in her eyes, telling her to go
out and play on the swings. But this time, Kyuuei finally
figured out why.
"Auntie!!!" Kyuuei leaped out of the swings, smiling brightly.
"Yes, dear? There's no need to shout."
"Gomen ne...ummmm....but I know why you're sad sometimes!"
She sounded like she was 5 years old again...innocence usually
worked.
"Oh?" A note of disbelief and anguish was in Hitomi's voice.
"Yes...I think it's because you aren't married. You must have
had a sweetheart!!! You're a wonderful person....but
something must have happened...something that you nor he could
control." Tears came into Hitomi's eyes.
"In a way dear...in a way...." She fought the flood of tears
that was threatening to come forth. Immediately Kyuuei regretted
her bold statements.
"I'm sorry Auntie....Are you all right?" Hitomi nodded meekly
at her niece.
"I think it's time I gave you something."
"Aunt Hitomi!! Not after what I did!!! It's not even my birth-
day!"
"Well, it is a VERY special occasion." Hitomi's eyes were
not misty anymore, the only evidence of her having ever cried
was the fact that her eyes were a bit red.
As they walked upstairs Kyuuei had a feeling of importance, she
immediately told something that she had wanted to keep a secret,
at first.
"I had a dream last night. It was strange, almost like a
fairytale, like the stories you told me when I was younger.
I was in this garden when a bright light appears and bears me up
to a place in the sky. It was like Earth, and yet, it was not."
"It is a special occasion then." She turned around and had
something clutched in her hands.
"Auntie, no...you can't give me that!!! I'd lose it somewhere!"
"But it is time. As my grandmother passed it on, I so in turn,
pass it to you." Kyuuei waved her hands in the air, trying to
turn back the gift. Hitomi grabbed her flailing right hand and
closed it around the pendant. "It is done."
"I'm still not going to keep it."
"Oh yes you will." said Hitomi firmly.
"...fine..." *crosses fingers*
"And don't cross your fingers."
"Gomen...I will keep it."
"All right. We start lessons tomorrow." She turned to walk out
of the room.
"Lessons?! But it's Saturday tomorrow!!!"
"The perfect time." Then she strode down to the kitchen to make
supper.
"I'm not keeping it, I'm not!!!" Kyuuei resolved to put it in
one of the drawers. "No....she might not see it...then I'd
forget where it was...then I'd get in trouble if I told her."
Her next thought was to place it on the nightstand. "Still no
good, she'll find it too soon, then she'd yell at me for not
keeping it. Argh...I may as well keep it." So Kyuuei slipped it
over her head, hoping to keep it safe.
"Honey! Dinner time!"
"Yes, I'm coming." She washed her hands and preceded down the
stairs.
"I hope you washed your hands."
"I did."
"Good. Now let's eat." Sounded like a good idea. Kyuuei had
her favourite for dessert, strawberry pie. ^_^
~Later that Night~
Kyuuei pointed to the sky, a bright light had emerged from between
the clouds.
"Oh no! Aunt Hitomi!! HELP!!!" But of course her aunt was not
there, she had gone to pick up her journal at home.
The light surrounded Kyuuei, bather her in its ethreal glow. As
it covered her wholly the beam of light shot upwards, taking
the girl upwards into the unknown.
"NANI!!!! It happened again...that strange light...the dream.
It's just like in Auntie's stories. Maybe that's it...I've
been thinking a lot about her stories lately. They're just
going over and over subconsciously in my head, placing ME in
them." Kyuuei seemed to have convinced herself that what she said
was true. But only the Fates would know.
~In the Morning~
"Rise and Shine!" Hitomi called out to her still slumbering
niece. "KYUUEI!!! I made YOUR FAVOURITE!!!"
"Hmmm....???!!!! OH!!! WOW!!! Thanks Aunt Hitomi! You're
my favourite aunt!!!"
"Dear...I'm your only aunt."
"oh...yeah..hehehe...right....but compared to any others...
you're the best and my favourite!!!!"
"Whatever you say honey, whatever you say." Hitomi giggled.
They sat down to breakfast. Kyuuei shovelled the pancakes into
her mouth quickly. "Now that you're done eating...we can
start your lessons." Kyuuei opened her mouth to complain, but
Hitomi stopped her. "I know you don't want to do this on a
Saturday, but it has to be done." They moved out of the dining
room and into the den. Hitomi took out the photo album.
"Kyuuei. There are two things you MUST know."
"Yes, Aunt Hitomi. Don't rely on your fist alone when you're
going to fight someone. No wait...don't use your fists. Think
with your heart, not with your head in most cases." (AN: I'm
setting a very bad example aren't I?)
"No dear. Not those. Two things that have been kept from you
long enough." Kyuuei shook her head not understanding.
"Remember those stories I used to tell you when you were
younger? After my track meet ten years ago?" She nodded,
of course she did....it was around the same time that
she had those dreams. "Well, they weren't exactly stories...
they did happen....to me....up there on GAEA." This was very
hard for Hitomi. How could you tell someone like THAT had truly
happened?
"You're joking, aren't you?"
"No, I'm not....I've never lied to you, just kept half the
truth."
"But..."
"No buts.... I was really with Van from Fanelia...he was...IS
half Draconian....ancestors of the Atlanteans. I did know
Merle, annoying as she was at first, I'll consider her a friend.
Alan and Princess Millerna (Gomen if I spelled her name wrong)
were caught in a love triangle....but now...I pray they are
together. Prince Sheed is Alan's son.... He was such a noble
boy then.....he'd be just a few years older than you I think."
"I can't accept all of those things Auntie...they're too
fictional." She shook her head again....her aunt had wings
in the 'stories'.... Van had wings.... Her Aunt Hitomi had
true wings....and right now...she just didn't see them. Where
were they? Disbelief was what filled her eyes then.
"I know you won't believe me...but you will...."
"And what is the second thing that I needed to know...
hopefully easier to swallow than all of this."
"I don't know...depends on how you look at it... the pendant."
Hitomi opened the album near the middle. "Here." Kyuuei peered
at the picture. There were two people in the picture. Looking
more closely, Kyuuei recognized them.
"The one on the left is you. And the one on the right is
my mother....she used to have long black hair....to her waist.
She has the same colour of eyes you have.....but I knew that.
What's so special about this picture?"
"Look closely.....very closely." Kyuuei searched the picture for
some hidden meaning, something.
"I still don't see anything....nothing...." As she said so
however, her eyes fixed on two things in the picture. "You
both have pendants! Exactly the same, but for one difference,
mum's had a silver chain, and your's was gold." Hitomi nodded.
"Then...what does this mean?....is it...." Why hadn't she
noticed before? Kyuuei drew the pendant from her head. She let
the chain fall free in the air. The stone of the pendant started
to glow in soft tones. The light flickered and the stone
tugged upwards....
@)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)----- @)-----
Please no hammers...please!!! I'll try to do another chapter,
for any of my stories..promise...before I have to go!!!
So...please...feed back!!! Good...bad...more good I hope!
Ja ne!