Ah, yes, even more doubt. the title says it all. yes, you will see a character come back for a brief moment from the past, but otherwise, things are definitely escalating!
~Doubts of the Mind~
~*Namida No Sora*~
Allan was fending off the dark guymelufs. "Van, wake up! Van!"
Van was still unconcsious in his own mind, fighting his own demons. This is so uncomfortable, he thought. To know that this love has become a triangle all over again. How can I compete? I love her so much...only to know that my friend and rival also wants her just as much? Why does everything have to happen to me?
Clanks of sword.
"Van," Allan growled. "Van, you baka, help! Wake up, dammit!"
My life sucks, Van thought. I think that's the term Hitomi would use, My life sucks. All my life, I was always searching for that perfect moment when I would be with that perfect, true love. My heart says she is the one, but my mind just can't help thinking that Allan will always be attacking that dream. I remember when I was just a child, after Mother went away...looking up from the Mystic Moon and whispering for an angel to come to me one day and never make me sad, or feel hurt, or be lonely. What a lie this life has been...why does everything so right has to be so wrong?
"Van!" Allan shouted. "Van, wake up! Please, Van, I can't save us all!"
Maybe I should give up right now, Van thought glumly. Maybe I should give in to what these bastards want, give up the crown, give up on Fanelia, give up on Escaflowne, Gaia---give up on life. I have the looks of the angel but I don't have the persona---Hitomi does. She deserves better. She deserves better than someone like me...a scrawny, naive, lost boy.
"Van!" Allan spat as he tumbled to the ground.
Clanks of sword. Scrapings of rock.
Van felt his body getting lighter. I think this is it, he thought. I think I'm really over. Gosh, has Allan overdone himself. At least Hitomi doesn't have to worry herself to death about me...I'm sure Allan can save her much better than me. He suits the role better. He looked into the unending darkness. I love you, Hitomi...you were that angel I was praying for all those years ago....
Van? Hitomi wondered. She felt something begin to fade inside her, something that lay in her heart. She forgot about Emperor Talonn for a moment and closed her eyes, focusing on Van. Van...what's going on? she asked into the unending darkness. Van, don't die!
I love you, Hitomi...you were that angel I was praying for all those years ago...
Van? she said into the darkness. He wished for her a long time ago?
Flash.
A chibi Van looking outside his bedside window into the starry sky, his eyes focusing on Earth and her orbitting Moon. "I wish a tenshi would come someday," he said in his cute chibi voice. Even Van was adorably cute at one point, she realized. "A tenshi that would never make me sad, or alone, or hurt. A tenshi that will always be smiling down on me."
Flash.
Hitomi, three years ago, when she first laid out the cards and asked if she would find true love. Bingo; she did, at the price that she would be seperated from the others and a Dragon---Van, Gaea and true love. Then her mother called her to take her shower.
Flash.
"Is love stronger than Fate?"
Feathers.
Flash.
Rain coming down from the sky.
Shuken counting the stars.
Her mother all worried about her.
Yukari thinking about her, holding a portrait of her.
Amano driving across night time Tokyo.
Van, she called out again. Van, I need you, don't leave me here. Van, I don't care about whatever Allan said and did...don't listen to him! Listen to me, Van! I love you, Van, and I don't want to lose you. Not now...not ever...so don't die on me. I love you, Van, remember that!
Suddenly, she was enveloped in a shower of light, catching Emperor Talonn's attention. He spun around and saw Hitomi's body float upward towards the summit. "I knew it! Ha ha! She was an energist, after all!" he shouted for joy. "Now, to join her---and to sought out my destiny! Hahahahaha..."
He gathered his tarot cards, slid them into a pocket in his jacket, and ran towards the beam of light before it disappeared behind her. First, he speculated it closely before stepping into the light---
---and vanishing.
By the time the guards came, they were too late.
Van, I need you, don't leave me here. Van, I don't care about whatever Allan said and did...don't listen to him! Listen to me, Van! I love you, Van, and I don't want to lose you. Not now...not ever...so don't die on me. I love you, Van, remember that!
Hitomi? Van called out. Echoes. She loves me! She really does!
An image formed; green hair, calm eyes dressed in a white tunic and dark brown pants. Van was now standing in a field, a field outside of Fanelia, near his family's grave. They were looking at the ancient tree of Fanelia, the roots of their history. He knew who this stranger was. "Brother?"
"Yes, Van," he replied coolly.
"Why---what---" he stammered.
"I am here," he stated calmly, "because I sensed my brother is in trouble. Listen to me, Little Brother, things happen for a reason. But not this. Not this bond between you and Hitomi."
Van was struck silent.
Folken continued to talk. "You can doubt the entire world, Van, but not her. Never doubt her. Because this love of yours, that love you feel in your heart...it's right."
"Brother...?" Van began to ask.
"You'll get it when you see it. Good-bye, Van..."
"Brother!"
His eyes snapped open. "Brother!"
All he saw was his smashed faceplate.
He darted about; his faceplate was crushed to his right. His mechanism seemed to be fine, except maybe it smelled like smoke. He snapped his hand upright and raised himself to stand full-form. "Easy goes, Escaflowne," he hushed as he looked around. He found Allan's guymeluf on the stone, wrecked.
"Allan? Allan!"
The faceplate opened, to reveal Allan's worn-out face. "You finally woke up."
So much for the greeting. Van nodded. He whirled around to see the dark guymelufs gathered for a plan of attack. He gritted his teeth and grabbed the hilt of his blade. He unsheathed it and lunged forward, yelling.
Slash.
Creak.
Clash! He engaged himself in a heated battle against the enemy, the enemy with no face whom just started a fight with Gaia. Will they pay for their crimes against the peace Hitomi and he created! He sliced, diced and fought with his life.
"Van!"
Van's face whirled. "Hitomi?!" He elbowed another guymeluf down and opened his faceplate. His eyes scanned the perimeter. Sure enough, standing on the boulder, was Hitomi's beautiful face, gleaming up at him in her full uniform, not a scab on her. "Hitomi!"
"Van!" she cried, grinning.
Suddenly, a shadow lurked from behind her, grabbing her. Van saw a man with dark garments and dark hair and matching goatee pull out a knife and place it close to Hitomi's heart. "Hold it right there, Dragon," he threatened. "Or you will see just how sincere her love is for you."
***Whatever reason to leave that I've had/
My place was always beside you/
And I wish I didn't need you so bad/
Your face just won't go away***
~"Don't Wanna Lose You Know", Backstreet Boys
~End of Chapter
~Doubts of the Mind~
~*Namida No Sora*~
Allan was fending off the dark guymelufs. "Van, wake up! Van!"
Van was still unconcsious in his own mind, fighting his own demons. This is so uncomfortable, he thought. To know that this love has become a triangle all over again. How can I compete? I love her so much...only to know that my friend and rival also wants her just as much? Why does everything have to happen to me?
Clanks of sword.
"Van," Allan growled. "Van, you baka, help! Wake up, dammit!"
My life sucks, Van thought. I think that's the term Hitomi would use, My life sucks. All my life, I was always searching for that perfect moment when I would be with that perfect, true love. My heart says she is the one, but my mind just can't help thinking that Allan will always be attacking that dream. I remember when I was just a child, after Mother went away...looking up from the Mystic Moon and whispering for an angel to come to me one day and never make me sad, or feel hurt, or be lonely. What a lie this life has been...why does everything so right has to be so wrong?
"Van!" Allan shouted. "Van, wake up! Please, Van, I can't save us all!"
Maybe I should give up right now, Van thought glumly. Maybe I should give in to what these bastards want, give up the crown, give up on Fanelia, give up on Escaflowne, Gaia---give up on life. I have the looks of the angel but I don't have the persona---Hitomi does. She deserves better. She deserves better than someone like me...a scrawny, naive, lost boy.
"Van!" Allan spat as he tumbled to the ground.
Clanks of sword. Scrapings of rock.
Van felt his body getting lighter. I think this is it, he thought. I think I'm really over. Gosh, has Allan overdone himself. At least Hitomi doesn't have to worry herself to death about me...I'm sure Allan can save her much better than me. He suits the role better. He looked into the unending darkness. I love you, Hitomi...you were that angel I was praying for all those years ago....
Van? Hitomi wondered. She felt something begin to fade inside her, something that lay in her heart. She forgot about Emperor Talonn for a moment and closed her eyes, focusing on Van. Van...what's going on? she asked into the unending darkness. Van, don't die!
I love you, Hitomi...you were that angel I was praying for all those years ago...
Van? she said into the darkness. He wished for her a long time ago?
Flash.
A chibi Van looking outside his bedside window into the starry sky, his eyes focusing on Earth and her orbitting Moon. "I wish a tenshi would come someday," he said in his cute chibi voice. Even Van was adorably cute at one point, she realized. "A tenshi that would never make me sad, or alone, or hurt. A tenshi that will always be smiling down on me."
Flash.
Hitomi, three years ago, when she first laid out the cards and asked if she would find true love. Bingo; she did, at the price that she would be seperated from the others and a Dragon---Van, Gaea and true love. Then her mother called her to take her shower.
Flash.
"Is love stronger than Fate?"
Feathers.
Flash.
Rain coming down from the sky.
Shuken counting the stars.
Her mother all worried about her.
Yukari thinking about her, holding a portrait of her.
Amano driving across night time Tokyo.
Van, she called out again. Van, I need you, don't leave me here. Van, I don't care about whatever Allan said and did...don't listen to him! Listen to me, Van! I love you, Van, and I don't want to lose you. Not now...not ever...so don't die on me. I love you, Van, remember that!
Suddenly, she was enveloped in a shower of light, catching Emperor Talonn's attention. He spun around and saw Hitomi's body float upward towards the summit. "I knew it! Ha ha! She was an energist, after all!" he shouted for joy. "Now, to join her---and to sought out my destiny! Hahahahaha..."
He gathered his tarot cards, slid them into a pocket in his jacket, and ran towards the beam of light before it disappeared behind her. First, he speculated it closely before stepping into the light---
---and vanishing.
By the time the guards came, they were too late.
Van, I need you, don't leave me here. Van, I don't care about whatever Allan said and did...don't listen to him! Listen to me, Van! I love you, Van, and I don't want to lose you. Not now...not ever...so don't die on me. I love you, Van, remember that!
Hitomi? Van called out. Echoes. She loves me! She really does!
An image formed; green hair, calm eyes dressed in a white tunic and dark brown pants. Van was now standing in a field, a field outside of Fanelia, near his family's grave. They were looking at the ancient tree of Fanelia, the roots of their history. He knew who this stranger was. "Brother?"
"Yes, Van," he replied coolly.
"Why---what---" he stammered.
"I am here," he stated calmly, "because I sensed my brother is in trouble. Listen to me, Little Brother, things happen for a reason. But not this. Not this bond between you and Hitomi."
Van was struck silent.
Folken continued to talk. "You can doubt the entire world, Van, but not her. Never doubt her. Because this love of yours, that love you feel in your heart...it's right."
"Brother...?" Van began to ask.
"You'll get it when you see it. Good-bye, Van..."
"Brother!"
His eyes snapped open. "Brother!"
All he saw was his smashed faceplate.
He darted about; his faceplate was crushed to his right. His mechanism seemed to be fine, except maybe it smelled like smoke. He snapped his hand upright and raised himself to stand full-form. "Easy goes, Escaflowne," he hushed as he looked around. He found Allan's guymeluf on the stone, wrecked.
"Allan? Allan!"
The faceplate opened, to reveal Allan's worn-out face. "You finally woke up."
So much for the greeting. Van nodded. He whirled around to see the dark guymelufs gathered for a plan of attack. He gritted his teeth and grabbed the hilt of his blade. He unsheathed it and lunged forward, yelling.
Slash.
Creak.
Clash! He engaged himself in a heated battle against the enemy, the enemy with no face whom just started a fight with Gaia. Will they pay for their crimes against the peace Hitomi and he created! He sliced, diced and fought with his life.
"Van!"
Van's face whirled. "Hitomi?!" He elbowed another guymeluf down and opened his faceplate. His eyes scanned the perimeter. Sure enough, standing on the boulder, was Hitomi's beautiful face, gleaming up at him in her full uniform, not a scab on her. "Hitomi!"
"Van!" she cried, grinning.
Suddenly, a shadow lurked from behind her, grabbing her. Van saw a man with dark garments and dark hair and matching goatee pull out a knife and place it close to Hitomi's heart. "Hold it right there, Dragon," he threatened. "Or you will see just how sincere her love is for you."
***Whatever reason to leave that I've had/
My place was always beside you/
And I wish I didn't need you so bad/
Your face just won't go away***
~"Don't Wanna Lose You Know", Backstreet Boys
~End of Chapter
