Hey I'm back from the dead (but not for long) did you miss me? –wait don't answer that. You know what they say 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' either that or you just completely forget and resume with your daily life. I have taken a break from my hectic life and I wrote this; while I was meant to be revising (yuk revision, nasty word!!!). So here I go.
P.S. I am making this up as I go along so at some point I will re-revise the whole story making it longer, better and hopefully perfect. There will be a big twist so soon from now and I can barely contain it…Oooh the excitement!
Disclaimer; I did not own Escaflowne in the beginning of the story I am now near the middle and I still don't own Escaflowne, are you surprised??
Oh yeah I just have to say while writing this I was listening to heart attack by Darren Hayes (I just love that song ^.^)
Sunset
Hikari was lying drenched and lifeless over the black silk sheets on the four poster bed she was lying on. Her white and grey dress clung to her body, the bodice opaque without the protection of the several petticoats which kept her legs safely chaste. The white frail limp body lying on the bed was suffocated by the enormity of the room around her. The room was a large relatively narrow oval shape. The walls were painted black causing the line between the black carpet and the wall to blur; this would usually made the room look smaller despite the fact one could easily fit a playing field in it. In the centre of the room was placed a large solid mahogany bed with sheer, translucent silver drapes, which matched the edging on the black curtains and the top of the wall. Immediately opposite the bed were two large glass doors neither unbroken nor surrounded by any frames. However where one would logically expect a balcony to be placed there was nothing, just a drop.
Almost fading in to the background of the room stood an impatient prince leaning against the corner pole of his four poster bed. He frowned as he took in the girl's complexion. Her already porcelain skin, became if possible paler with an unnatural blue tint to it, which held in contrast to the blood red rims encircling her eyes, his eyes brought to a rest at the her previously raspberry colored lips which now possessed a purple hue to them. Her body lay lifeless and emotionless in front of him; he couldn't even see the gentle rise and fall of her chest.
Yusuke grunted impatiently as he awaited for the white and green, clad maids to enter the room to attend the scarcely living girl. Whilst in his hostile anger towards the incompetence of the palace maids, his mind drifted to the one thing he hated the most right now; Sadhura. He reached for the nearest thing he could muster a marble paper weight and threw it against his frameless oval mirror, clenching his jaw in a tight rage as he did so. He understood nothing, to little of what was happening and he hated it.
'You know you'll get seven years bad luck for that, don't you?' a mocking voice reverberated through his room.
If within human limits Yusuke's anger and frustration doubled by ten folds. He swung a precisely aimed fist at Sadhura's face only to find it was caught by the boy's shadow, who was standing behind his briefly older brother, whose figure silhouetted his perfectly.
'Sadhura' Yusuke spat bitterly as if he was forcing the words out of his throat like venom.
'Tsuyoshi' the longer haired boy smirked, introducing himself; however the princes eyes never left the older twin.
'I suppose the baka told you ne?'
'*Hikari* hasn't regained consciousness yet, especially after you nearly killed her!' He replied in a hoarse menacing whisper under his breath.
'Nearly Killed who?' The voice of the eldest brother rang through the room, who was clutching a writhing Sanosuke by his wrist; the young boy screaming protests against visiting his sister all the while. Finally the customary silent Celena entered the room, gasping quietly as she took in her regal surroundings, shock brainwashing her slight apprehension for her daughter.
The green eyed boy opened his mouth in reply but closed it deciding it wouldn't do good to accuse the smirking twin without proof.
'The prince was complaining that the gardener nearly killed the Lilies that Hikari likes so much. Right your highness?' the last sentence came out of the older twin's voice, dripping with sarcasm.
He clenched his jaw tightly in reply and nodded his head in confirmation.
Celena briskly walked over to the bed placing he hand on the sleeping girl's forehead.
'She's burning up.'
'I know I sent for those useless maids over ten minutes ago.' Yusuke barked forgetting his usual pleasant demeanor.
The ashen haired women immediately covered Hikari's revealing wet bodice with her shawl and began to rub the soles of her feet in order to bring the color back in to the girls face.
The doors swung open with a thud revealing a trail of maids in white simple linen dresses with forest green fringing. Yusuke took the opportunity to drag Sadhura out of the room by the sleeve of his shirt. Tsuyoshi swiftly followed but was blocked by Yuhei, who placed his arm out giving him a warning glance; he slowly guessed what probably happened.
Yusuke pushed Sadhura violently against the wall away from the exposure of the glass door and violently punched him in the jaw. The shocked twin wiped the trail of blood running down his chin. The prince grabbed him by the collar, staring the older boy in the eye.
'If you ever hurt her again, you won't be alive for me to put you on trail. Do you understand?' With that he dropped the boy leaving him to get up himself and walked back in to his room, controlling his urge to beat the boy in to a bloody pulp.
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Ruby eyes fluttered open as the suns golden-pink rays swept across her face. The world around her was a slight blur and she sat herself up trying to raging her vision. When finally her surroundings cleared she gasped at the beauty of the room; the black walls were made spectacular by the colored rays of the setting sun painting the walls in their rainbow of colours.
After the initial shock wore down, she realized that this wasn't her room; her moment of hesitation caused the morning s memories to come flooding back to her, causing her to clutch her head in mental pain. She silently slipped out of bed and realized she was no longer wearing her dress but a simple light blue cotton one. Her hand traveled over to her neckline and she gasped as she realized her silver chain was no longer there. She immediately quashed down her fears of panic and decided that someone probably placed it somewhere in the room. She stepped on to the soft carpeted floor and walked briskly to the edge of the room, finally arriving to mahogany dressing table. She looked up at it noticing the mirror was smashed and only a few shards remained clinging to the wall. She followed her eyes back down to the carpet and noticed several diamond liked daggers of glass decorating the floor playing with the red evening light. The light she noticed was merged with a red sticky substance, her blood. Hikari noted that her feet were indeed covered with scratches; she ignored them, too confused to register her pain.
Her gaze simply swept across the room once more; a sense of familiarity hit her. It was his room, it was absorbed by the warm-forest smell he radiated, this seemed to calm her a bit. As her scarlet eyes scanned the room she noticed a tiny silver gleam; her necklace. She tip-toed gently over to the corner of the room, stepping back as she noticed a black-clad sleeping figure encompassed by the shadows. She pulled carefully at the chain only to find that it didn't move. Her eyes wandered up and she noticed angry green ones string directly in her own vino-coloured ones.
Owari
I know you all wanted to see Sadhura SUFFER but don't worry he'll get his just desserts later…hehe I know what's going to happen and you don't ^.^ ( I am so immature!!!)
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P.S. if you have time go read my other story 'Love wears blood red.'