Escaflowne - A Vision Reborn (1)
Mother's Secret
By *~A White Rose Petal~*
Disclaimer- You already know! Not MINE!!!!…sept the plot…
Sites- Check the prologue, I'm lazy and want to get to the story
A/N: Hitomi tells her mother everything…but is more surprised at what her mother told
HER!
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Hitomi just gawked at her mother. She knew about Gaea?! She thought How? Then it hit her. She must have been talking in her few hours of sleep when she wasn't crying. They made a deal though. So Hitomi had to tell her mother. She sighed.
"Gaea is another planet-"
"Not that stuff! What did you do or at least know about it!" Hitomi looked at her mother with her red eyes which were that way from crying so much. She sighed in defeat.
"One day, I was running on the track like I usually did. Amono and I had an agreement…about something, and Yukari was there also."
*~ Flashback ~*
Hitomi was running on the track. She loved the way the wind around her felt when she ran into it. One of the main two reasons why she loved running. She could also always get a way from everybody and everything when she ran, even if somebody was running right beside her. As long as they were quiet, she felt this way. Suddenly a brilliant white light shot straight out of the sky. A boy around her age landed. He had ash black hair. He had on what looked like armor to Hitomi's eyes.
She saw a dragon come out of what seemed like no where and charged at the boy. She saw him use his sword to fight the dragon. Suddenly he got into a little trouble, "WATCH OUT!" She yelled at him. He took her warning and got out of the way. He soon killed the dragon and took this sphere out of it. A white light enveloped him and soon her taking both of them to this place called Gaea.
~*~ End Flashback ~*~
She told her mother everything after that. Her mother nodded her head and was just about to apply before she heard a very large crash from downstairs.
"Oh my goodness! What could that be?" She and her mother jumped off her bed. "Hitomi, wait here! We'll finish this later alright?" Hitomi shook her head yes and her mother was off.
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Van was in his room looking out the window. Hitomi… he thought thinking of his lost love. He stood up and grabbed his sword. Dawn was starting to break through the windows and he wanted to be out of the castle before the advisors got to him.
~*~~*~ Stables ~*~~*~
Van went over the to the royal stalls. Van looked over all of the horses wondering which one he should ride. He quickly chose a black stallion. He went over and unlocked the stable. The horse made small thudding sounds with his hooves. Van already had the halter on and locked up the stable again while holding on to it. He went out of the long like barn with his horse bobbing his head behind him.
"Woah there Night…" Van stated. He put the blanket and saddle onto the horses back and climbed on himself while holding the horses hair. He pulled on the reins and he was off. Getting away from his troubles as fast as he thought possible.
~*~~*~ Outside of Kanzaki Home ~*~
"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" Hitomi screamed. Tears were streaming down her face. The fire was burning even higher.
~*~~*~ Flashback minutes before…~*~~*~
Hitomi re-buried her head in the pillow now that her mother was downstairs. Thoughts were swimming all around her head at how this could have happened? How could her mother know about Gaea? Hitomi had no clue to those questions. She was devastated because of it. Suddenly she heard a scream and then a loud ringing going through the house. The fire alarm! She thought. W-Why is it going off…now! Hitomi felt something starting to burn her eyes. Smoke. Hitomi opened up her door without feeling it from the inside. She went out and ran into the wooden bars that were there. What she saw terrified her. People were running and screaming trying to get away from the fire. She saw her father. Trying to push her brother to the door. Trying to get him away from the fire. A bar went down in front of both of them, sending fire onto both of them. Her brother screamed with pain as her father yelled. Nobody was getting out! Or at least nobody she knew… Amono and Yukari were very easily trapped. As were her father and brother. She saw someone climbing the stairs and noticed the dress that the woman was wearing.
"Mommy! Mommy!" She screamed. Her mother got to the top of the stairs and looked at her daughter. Tears in her eyes. Hitomi saw why. They to were just blocked off. Part of the high ceiling fell onto the stairs and was quickly burning away the carpet and wood that was underneath it.
"H-Hitomi! Get out! NOW!" Her mother seemed to be saying. She shook her head know. "Hitomi don't be ::cough:: stubborn! We'll be alright! ::cough::"
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!" Hitomi screamed as well as wondered.
"Hitomi listen, go now! Get yourself out of here! PLEASE!"
"B-But mom…"
"Hitomi!" Her mother said sternly. Hitomi stomped her foot down as if to say I'm dying with this house. Or at least in her mind, her family. Her mother touched her shoulder after walking forward a few steps. She used all of the strength she had to get Hitomi to turn around and into her parents room. Mrs. Kanzaki coughed over and over again from the smoke that she inhaled. She took a ladder from under her bed and put it out of her window. She pointed to it like an instruction for Hitomi to get out of here on it. Hitomi stared at it then at her mother. She shook her head no and tears started to well up in her eyes again.
"Don't make me die mad at you and myself Hitomi…especially you!" Her mother's statement shocked her.
"B-But mom…"
"HITOMI! NOW!" Hitomi let the tears streak her face again she didn't want to leave her mother but she didn't want her mother want her to be angry at her. Hitomi walked over to the window and climbed out of the buliding.
"W-Why aren't you coming mommy?" Her mother smiled down at her daughter. She stroke her cheek.
"Hitomi…I've inhaled enough smoke already to die."
"No mom!"
"Hitomi go now!"
"B-but m-mom…"
"NOW!"
~*~~*~ End Flashback ~*~~*~
Tears were falling down her cheeks. Suddenly a stretcher came out with a woman on it.
"Mama?" Hitomi ran over to her. To her it was odd that the people, except her, started to leave her mother.
"H-Hi-Hitomi-mi…" Her mother lifted her hand to Hitomi's cheek and Hitomi held it there with her own
"MAMA!" Hitomi was so happy to see her mother alive.
"Hitomi…listen to me…"
"Y-yes…"
"If-if y-you kn-know how to-to g-get to Ga-Gaea…th-then do it!"
"B-But why mama?"
"Hitomi…listen…Do you want to know why YOU went-went there…not anybody else?"
"B-Because of-of my-my pendant?"
"Y-Yes but…"
"What?" Hitomi almost forgot her mother was in front of her dying.
"That pendant was made up of a rock only been found on a certain part of Gaea…" Hitomi's eyes widened.
"W-what do you mean mother?"
"Hitomi find your-your s…find Virginia…" Her mother's breath got cut short and her hand fell from Hitomi's cheek.
"MOMMY!" Hitomi screamed at the lifeless figure in front of her. "Mommy." Tears came to her eyes again as she whispered her last words to her mother. Almost as if she knew to do it by heart, Hitomi put her hand in front of her mothers face and closed her eyes in a sign of respect.
"I love you mommy." As if her mother was living inside her head, an answer came to her, an answer she wasn't accepting.
"I love you Hitomi…my daughter…"
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A/N: OK kind of crummy but not entirely, I couldn't think of a suitable way to end that so I did it that way. The next parts will be way better! I swear…Or at least I hope so!!!
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ESCAFLOWNE - A Vision Reborn
SUMMARY FOR THE SERIES - Van and Hitomi miss each other and try to fight it. They both know that they can't Hitomi lands on Gaea again but lands in another place that isn't close to Fanailia when she finds out her parent's terrible secret. It's up to her to figure out what it means… Being one who knows the past, present, and future Hitomi gets a vision of this oddly stronger older girl Does this girl hold the key to Van and Hitomi's future. Does Hitomi…know her?
