The Dark of Dawn

An Escaflowne Fan-Fiction

We know I didn't create Escaflowne. Which is why I thank the companies who did, and assure them I am not making profit off this. I just have a lot of spare time and an overactive imagination.

Introduction

The king sighed. As of late, he had grown winsome. King Van Slanzar de Fanel's true love Hitomi was on what she called 'Earth', her home planet. Because of this, he had been left alone for the past six years. Actually, this was not quite true, as he had been extremely busy rebuilding his country, Fanelia.

Fanelia had grown more beautiful after its burning; the ash made for a good fertilizer. From up in the air it could be seen as a strech of emerald land. Its rebuilding was still not yet completed, and the former Fanelia where you could get anywhere in ten minutes was yet to be seen. Van had just been able to ease up on his royal work, focusing his mind on more personal manners.

Meanwhile, back on what we call Earth (or at least most people do) 21-year-old Hitomi Kanzaki, started thinking about Van. She had been busy in university, learning a few languages and taking expensive classes which, luckily, did her good. Hitomi had thrown herself into sports as her vacation approached, mainly to look better in her pictures and to feel less impatient.

Actually, she did look nice. The young woman had a beautiful tan, a thin but muscular body, a good figure, and striking green eyes. Her roomate, Xiaohua (little flower in Mandarin) usually joined her in a game, but today, Hitomi was on her own. She looked up in the sky, trying to see Van's planet, Gaea. Of course, just like the other 13 457 times she had done this, she could not see it.

As she ran up to her room to change her outfit, she wondered what Van was doing. Hitomi had not seen him for six years, and felt a sense of desperation, knowing that she probably wouldn't be able to see him. She lay down on her bed and wished with all her heart.

Van had followed a similar train of thought, and was standing up clenching the magical pendant Hitomi had given him. He did want to see her, and concentrated his might on being with her. As his eyes were closed, he neither saw or felt himself being lifted up in a beautiful swirl of light which everyone throughout Gaea marveled at...