Escaflowne ~ A Vision Reborn (29)

Escaflowne ~ A Vision Reborn (29)

To be a kid again

*~A White Rose Petal~*

A/N: Guess what! It's the next chapter! Sorry it took so long to get this out…

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Jin slowly opened her eyes. She saw light. Light. Jin's eyes started to widen. Light! Light? Why would light be here…She started to look around her surroundings. What she saw only brought one thought to her mind. 'Oh no…not now! It can't be now!' She thought. The sky was dark and was raining, but that didn't stop the fire was burning. They were under a tarp and the rain went over the sides. It sounded like a nails hitting a board when the drops hit the cloth. When she woke up, she saw that Hitomi and Zatera were to both knocked out. Something in her mind slowly got a question. Where was Tyler? Jin started looking around frantically when she heard Wanda speaking.

"And so…Tyler is no longer going to be killed. The kingdom has proven him as their prince and will cause a war if we killed him. We never did have good relations with the kingdom Soothe but I believe it is the best for my subjects…" Wanda drawled on. Jin's heart stopped and her breathing ceased. Tyler? Tyler…prince? Tyler……gone? She thought in Tarzan if you would put it that way. Jin bit her tongue and closed her eyes, determined not to cry. She looked over to her side and saw Hitomi slowly opening her eyes. She sucked in a breath. She was going to listen to the rest of the announcement.

"And just an hour ago," An hour? Is that how long she'd been out? Maybe it was longer…, "An advisor of Van's came!" Jin knew that this wasn't good. Wanda was acting to giddy. "Apparently Van has to get married sooner than what his parents had planned! And because he has not yet found a suitor(ess?) of his liking…he shall get married to me in three months!" Jin just stared in front of her. She couldn't look to her side to see Hitomi. She didn't know what her reaction would be. It was going to be something like when she heard about Tyler probably…shocked, scared, alone…Jin finally let a few tears fall down her face. She finally looked to the side and looked at Hitomi. Hitomi was on her knees, still. Very still. Almost as if she was paralyzed. Her eyes weren't wide. They were nothing like what Jin had done. She just stayed still. 'It's just a dream…a-a nightmare!' She thought, 'Van is not marrying Wanda.' She thought confidently. She didn't know why, but she really didn't feel sad at the moment…how could you when you felt a small question that can push everything you were thinking about a way? A string of silver. Maybe white…she wasn't sure…'Is that…something that can…' The thought didn't finish. Hitomi was jerked up. She was pulled to the back of the tarp and chained to one of the posts. Zatera right after her. She looked over to Jin to see if the same was happening to her. She wasn't. Jin was being lead out into the rain and was instantly soaked along with the guards. They climbed up the stairs to the noose that was looked as if it were waiting. Hitomi knew that this was going to happen, but she never saw it before. Jin's head was put into the noose and the guards tightened it up. Jin took a deep breath. She looked over at Wanda who looked over at her and grinned. She nodded her head. "Hang her." She said. Jin heard the man opening the small door that was right underneath her.

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Tyler was hammering his door frantically. He heard his second oldest brother, Taoes, yelling at him.

"Tyler! Just give up already! Your door is locked! Do you know how stupid that was?! What you tried to pull off? And speaking of that small point…what WERE you trying to pull off anyway?" Taoes asked. He expected more hammering of fists. Maybe some yelling. But what he heard mortified him a little bit. All he heard was silence. He swallowed lightly. "T-Tyler?" He stuttered. He looked at the door. He put his hand on the knob and turned it. The last thing he saw of Tyler was his handing leaving the window and going down the sheet rope. "Oh shit!" He cursed, "Mum is not going to like this…" He said out loud. He closed his eyes as a thought went around his head. 'I should have known that Tyler would do that."

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Van was locked in his room. Literally. He couldn't get out of the room because of the guards that were watching on the other side. All he could was stare at the ceiling and wait. He could hear everything that was happening…it wasn't that far away from his windows but he still couldn't see anything. He kicked the mattress on his bed in frustration. 'Well…this is the pits…' He thought sarcastically. He wondered what he was going to do now, be stuck in the room and wait for his 'fiancé' to tell him it was okay for him to come out. Van closed his eyes as he remembered once…or twice…or a few other times…when this happened. He would get in trouble and would be sent to his room so that his parents could calm down a bit…and he could think about what he did wrong, or so they say. 'Just like a kid again' He thought scornfully. He wondered why that was the only thought that he could think of. An answer came to his head that made him think many things over for a bit. 'because I want it back?' He thought. It was interesting…now that he thought about it. He never really thought that he would be 'wishing' it back again. He missed it from time to time, but never wished for it back. Or had he?

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Merle was unconcious on the floor. How she got there, she didn't remember. She was just there. She looked around the room and saw that she was the only one there. 'I wonder where Allen is…' She thought, looking around her surroundings. The walls were made of gray brick, and the stench was awful. She came to a very fast realization to where she was. A dungeon.

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A/N: Aw…the next chapter! I hope that I will get the next chapter for HIA% up soon! I'm working on all of these and it's ::looks at clock:: 12:49 p.m. …my mom is going to kill me…(I live in constant fears of my parents killing me, lol)