Escaflowne ~ A Vision Reborn (15)
A Small Room
*~A White Rose Petal~*
A/N: OK…time for the next chapter apparently…
To Innocent Dreamer - OK, There's a first time for everything right Innocent? I suppose that I just needed to get all of the parts out at one time…
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Summary:
Jin seems to know her way around the castle pretty well and Zatera knows why (ß go to chapter 3 for more info, chapter 4 in ch. System). She agrees to go on a walk with Hitomi and Van but stay AWAY from them but close enough to keep Wanda satisfied.
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Tyler and Zatera fight, what else is new?
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Allen finds a hidden room…
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STORY:
"Please Jin!" Hitomi pleaded. Jin rolled her eyes. Hitomi was on her knees at the moment hands clasped together in a begging form. Van however was mimicking her by bending his knees a little bit and had a very stressed face on. It would look a little more convincing if his eyes weren't laughing and he was actually saying words instead of mouthing Hitomi's. Jin groaned.
"Fine!" She said, "I give up! I'll go!" Hitomi grinned and stood up. She stopped by Van and whacked his arm, catching him off guard.
"Ow! Geesh what was that for?"
"For copying me!" She laughed. She left the room and Van stared at Jin who smiled up at him sweetly.
"Women's intuition." She said though he didn't even ask a question.
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Hitomi and Van immediately forgot that Jin was in behind them and were in their own little world in no time. Jin looked around the hall and at the paintings that Wanda hung up. She cringed. 'What did Wanda do this place?' she wondered. Wall after wall were pictures of starving children on the streets, or a scene for when somebody is ordered to be beheaded. But there was at least one picture on each wall that Jin had to get raging mad at Wanda at. It was a picture of Wanda herself. Jin walked across one of the pictures and started laughing and crying at the same time. The tears were not from how hard she was laughing. They were real tears, because she knew now that only this picture or another one like it was a fake picture. The one where she cried was a picture of Wanda bending down and handing a boy some money, and the boy looked so sweet. He had some brown hair and the brightest blue eyes anywhere from the mystic blue moon to Gaea that you've ever seen. His rosy cheeks added to how cute he was. But there was one problem in the picture that Jin noticed. The boy was clean. To clean for somebody who was poor, and his awful 'peasant' clothes were all clean, as if they were put in bleach. Hitomi and Van had already turned the corner but Jin dismissed it. This picture was just to stupid to be up there. 'Wanda, the sweetest queen on Gaea!' She thought sarcastically. It was then that Jin felt another presence in the hall other than her. She looked behind her to see no other than Wanda staring at her.
"What are you doing here?" She said with a monotone voice. Her voice sounded all crack-ly, as if you could put a finger into the air and feel the cracks. Jin tore her eyes from the portrait and stared at Wanda with hatred.
"I was looking at the paintings." She said. Wanda looked at her as if she was sizing her up.
"Why?"
"True art takes time to look at," 'and fifteen minutes to find hatred with the lies!' Jin looked at Wanda evenly. Her eyes looked like they did at the last fight she fought. Bored. Wanda nodded her head at this answer.
"I agree. Do you know what I am doing in this picture?" She asked, but she didn't wait for a reply. "I'm giving some of the money that I earned to that poor child. Do you know how well you can rule a kingdom if you know how to take care of your subjects?" She said. Awaiting an answer this time.
"I figured the better you know your subjects, the better you can help them." She shrugged. Hoping this was a good enough answer for Wanda. Wanda looked at her with her head lowered, she stared at Jin, her eyes narrowed.
"Hmm, you seem to know quite a bit of the royal court…may I ask how." Jin scoured her mind for an answer. For some reason, she already knew that Tyler had come up with an excuse but didn't tell it to her yet. Something strange she picked up as she got to know him more as a friend, than just another fighter for her to beat. Or maybe it was because she caught Tyler at the opposite end of the hall arguing with Zatera who were both making very weird symbols with their hands what she is supposed to do. She did her all to well known shrug and looked at Wanda with both eyes on her.
"I picked it up." She said evenly. Wanda cocked an eyebrow, and Tyler and Zatera seemed relieved.
"May I ask where you picked it up from?" She asked. Her back was to Tyler and Zatera, Jin knew that she couldn't hear them nor see them. Jin just shrugged.
"I just picked it up, why should you care where I picked it up from?" She said. She let her eyes travel down to where Zatera and Tyler were. Both of them were giving her a thumbs up sign, and taking their hands up and rubbing up the sweat that was never there.
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"Oh geesh Van! I-" Hitomi began. She looked behind her only to see that there was no one there. She looked over to Van. "Do you know where Jin went?" She asked him. Van just looked over to her than where Jin was supposed to be.
"Dunno…well…if she gets lost Zatera, from what I have seen, will be able to smell her out." Hitomi rolled her eyes and shook her head sadly.
"What's depressing is that that is true…" She said, laughing at it a little bit. Suddenly they heard paws behind them (or in front of them, they were still facing where Jin was supposed to be). They turned sharply only to see Merle behind them.
"Oh-Merle! Don't do that!" Hitomi gasped. Merle stuck her tongue out at her, and then turned to Van.
"You're 'needed' to be seen by 'Lady' Wanda Van." She said. Van groaned.
"Why does she want to?"
"From what I can see, she wants to grasp the ideas of Fanailia and Zantakian forces together…at least that's what I can see…" She said, starting to send her eyes downcast, thinking. Van groaned.
"Why do I have to?" He said closing his eyes and leaning onto Hitomi. Hitomi fake gagged.
"Because you're 'the king'!" She stated, remembering back in the cabin. Merle shook her head at the two of them. 'What am I going to do with those two?' She wondered.
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Allen looked around at the paintings on the wall. He came across a door that looked like it hadn't been used for some time, maybe it hasn't even been used for years, from it's looks! It was almost entirely covered with wallpaper. His brow creased up in confusion. 'Why would they hide a door…' He thought. Usually, being a gentleman, he would ignore this and make no comments about this later. His curiosity, however, got the better of him. He went over to where a new part of the wallpaper began and carefully pulled away at it. It was quite hard, pointing to the point where he wanted to keep it looking just the way that it was at that moment. He walked over, behind the wallpaper and inside of the room. He looked around, noting nothing out of the ordinary; except when he turned around he heard somebody cough.
The cough seemed distant, like it was in another room. He looked all over the small room but not finding anything that could lead to another. He heard some sniffling and walked over to where it came from. He found a small vent that was up to his chin. He shook his head. Nothing to interesting here…just some other guest room that connects with this room.
"…then add some of this…" The voice said lightly as if he wanted to keep it to himself, which he did. Allen bent down a little and looked into the vent.
"Oh my…" He gasped. Inside, it was a dark room and the potion master was hard at work.
"A little while longer…" The potion master said, "and the queen shall have her king…and I my award he said. Allen looked confused. 'What was this man doing? The queen getting her king? What is that supposed to mean?' Allen turned around and left the room, thinking to himself.
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"You're not doing it right Merle!" Zatera said. He pounced over to her on all fours and stood behind her. He put his hands on her wrists and adjusted them so that they were just a little farther apart. Merle looked at him confused.
"My hands were barely that far apart! Why did you do that?" She asked. Zatera himself didn't know why he did that, just that he did. He shrugged, coming up with a reason.
"You're arms need to be as exact as possible in front of you." He said. Merle would have shrugged but she was worried that she might get her hands out of place. She then pounced forward and did a cartwheel while turning in the air. Zatera ran over to her, noticing that she was going to fall at the end of it. "Woah!" He said while catching her. Merle gasped.
"Thanks." She said. They stayed that way for a moment until Merle crawled out of his arms and looked the other way in the room, to hide her blush.
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Jin looked at the room she was in right now, Wanda's office. She invited her in here for some tea and was gone at the moment. Jin allowed herself to look on the other side of the desk to inspect it. She opened up the doors, knowing that she was going into somebody else's privacy. 'She took away the only people who should have lived here all their lives. The queen, the daughter to the queen and her husband…' tears started coming to her eyes. 'and the princesses…' she thought. She brought her eyes up, tears on the brim. Her eyes were on fire. 'But the princesses are still alive…now to bring them back…' She thought. She closed all the doors she opened and sat back in her chair, waiting for Wanda to return.
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A/N: Watch out for Jin! We got a little but of BG here…Allen got his own little part in this one…I'm trying to get his parts bigger and bigger as I go along…that's about it…see ya!
*~A White Rose Petal~*
