Death and then Reincarnation...
Death and then Reincarnation...
Well hello people! This is my Esacflowne Fanfic which is inspired by another anime story... Please Save My Earth, my favorite ever. Anyway the story goes like this, everyone has died (alone, not married, lonely) and are now reincarnated on Earth so that they can all be together again. Here's some background info about the name changes in the reincarnations, at the end I'll write a bit on how it fits into the story of Please Save My Earth, I'm just borrowing some of the scenes.
Kanzaki Hitomi is Sakaguchi Alice (Arisu)
Van de Fanel is Kobayashi Rin (Ring)
Allen Schezar is Ogura Jinpachi
Millerna ? is Nishikiori Enju (OK, so the original name was Nishikiori Issei, but that was a guy, so I'm changing it. His past life name was, Enju, and YES he was a women reborn as a MAN!)
Well that's the line up, some may be confused when you read the story, but if you know about Please Save My Earth you might understand a bit better, so after each part I'll try to put some info as to why I put some parts in
This is my first fanfic, and if it seems unimaginative, o' well. Anyway, have fun reading it, and I encourage you all to go out and try Please Save My Earth and Escaflowne if you already haven't done so.
Oh, yeah (this is getting a bit lengthy on the message part...), my chapters are quite long, so I'm warning you before you read if you don't like long stories!
(writing) - things in parentheses are my notes and thoughts
writing - words in italics are what the characters thinking or flashbacks
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne or anything of Please Save My Earth for that matter.
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Prologue (I'm just going to make this short and simple): On Gaea Allen and Millerna have already died, and it seems like Van is at his death bed as well. On Earth, Hitomi is lying ill in her own bed at the brink of death, each is thinking of the other. Van holds the pendant to his chest and regrets not ever being able to see her again. They both close their eyes at the same time, and they can suddenly see each other! They are now dead and are together at last in spirit.
"Hitomi, I've missed you..." Van says. "Now that we're both dead, I'll never have the chance to confess my feelings to her.". He looks at her sadly, their time as spirits is short, maybe he can confess to her now, before the chance slips through his fingers again.
"I have too, Van, but don't worry, we'll see each other again... This time we'll be together, I know we are fated to meet again... Even if it's not in this life..." Hitomi tells him with a smile on her face. "Hitomi..." Van starts, but the pendant is still in his hands and it starts to give off a pink light. "I-!" he starts to say, but their time is over, and the images of their spirits soon fade away into the Earth.
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-ON EARTH-
Alice was walking to school with Jinpachi and Enju, today there was to be a new transfer student. Rumors had it that the student would be transferred to their class, they would all just have to find out when they went to class.
When they got there everyone was already lined out to greet the new student.
"OK class, this is our new transfer student: Kobayashi Rin from Hokkaido. Please make him feel welcome," the principal said. Alice peered through the sea of faces to take a look at the new guy. He had dark hair and eyes, and his hair was a bit unruly. She takes another look at him and is suddenly hit by a wave of deja vu. "Eh- I how strange, I feel as if I've known him before... but where? I must be hallucinating. Still..." She then turns and hurries off with the others.
After that, they all went to class. Alice, Jinpachi, and Enju all had the same homeroom, homeroom 2-A, and it seemed the new guy did too. Since Alice was the class president, she had to be the one to show him around and help him out.
"Good morning, I'm Sakaguchi Alice, nice to meet you," she said.
"Good morning to you, I am Kobayashi Rin," he said all while looking up, their eyes met and she could see that those dark eyes of his were deep and intense, like if you stared long enough you can completely drown in them. Alice quickly snapped back to her senses.
"Well, since you're new, please sit by me. These are my friends Jinpachi and Enju." she said pointing at them. They waved from the seats behind.
Class started to begin and they pulled out there books. Alice stole a quick glance at Rin and noticed him turning to look at her. She quickly averted her gaze, as did he. Later that day, lunch came and all four students sat together for lunch.
"So, you transferred from Hokkaido? Why? Did your parents move?" Enju asked.
"No, my parents died when I was young, I moved out here because my brother goes to Tokyo U (for lack of knowledge on Universities in Japan, I got this off of Love Hina's Toudai). Even if we don't quite see eye to eye, he's there if I need him, in other words, I live alone."
"Oh, I'm sorry..." Alice trailed off, "so, what apartment complex to do you live in?" she said trying to change the solemn subject.
"I live in the Tokyo Apartments (what a lame name, but I couldn't come up with anything else),"
"REALLY?!" Alice exclaimed, a little to excitedly, that it came out as a squeeky voice "so do Jinpachi and I, now that you mention it, the room next to ours was vacant, so I'm guessing you're the one that moved in."
"Yeah, now that I think about it, I think I remember you're house name on the mailbox next to mine. We can get together sometime and you can show me around the town, I'm still not quite used to it yet."
"Sure, Jinpachi and I would love to show you around," she said, looking at Jinpachi who had a strangely annoyed look on his face, and Rin seemed a bit let down himself.
After school, all four walked home together. Enju lived closer to school than the other three, but she always walked to Jinpachi and Alice's house anyway, and walked back later on her own. No one new why she did so, they just all thought she liked to walk. Alice ate dinner and walked out onto the verandah (verandah is like a balcony if you don't know). She looked out at the night sky and then she heard a sigh from next to her. She turned to look at who it was and it turned out to be Rin.
"Hi," he said, looking at her with his deep eyes.
"Hi, the night air feels good doesn't it?" she closes her eyes and feels the wind flow through her hair, unaware that Rin is staring intensely at her. He looked like he wanted to say something that had been kept hidden inside him for eternity. "So, tell me, isn't it lonely living all by yourself? I would feel that way without my family with me." She finally looks into his eyes and is startled. "His eyes... They look like their trying to say something... Something that's been bottled up inside and is threatening to spill over... WHAT am I thinking?"
"I've gotten used to it, besides I live around such charming people," he grinned at her.
Alice blushed a bit at what he was implying, yet she was happy he seemed to trust her and opened up to her, and she was flattered. "How many times have you used that line on your girlfriend?" she asked.
"Don't have one yet, but I meant what I said," he said with sincerity as he held her gaze with his own. "How about you? Boyfriend?" he asked a bit nonchalantly.
"Actually... I'm sorta engaged. You met him, at school today, Jinpachi, remember? We've been childhood friend since I can't remember when, and he's always been good to me..." she said, not really wanting to look in his eyes.
"So you must really love him, huh?"
His question took her a bit by surprise. "I don't know if I would really put it that way, but I promised him a long time ago when we were children, after..." she trailed off. Rin wanted to know why, but he sensed it wasn't the time or place to ask her. After that, Alice tells him to get some sleep, for school was tomorrow and that they should all walk together.
While Alice is sleeping in her bed, she dreams. There's a picture of a place where the moon and the Earth hang in the night sky, and a shadow of a dragon appears over the moon and Earth. Suddenly she's falling and desperately tries to grab hold of something, when an angel with wings flies down and catches her hand, smiling down at her, with his face and eyes in shadow, feathers float down. She wakes up and wonders what it all meant.
The next morning they all meet in the lobby and walk towards Enju's house. She was standing alone in the front, a troubled look on her face, but when she caught site of Jinpachi and the rest, a smile lit her face. As they are walking to school, Alice tells the others about the dream she had last night. Everyone jokes around saying that she has let her imagination run, everyone that is, except Rin. He has that concentrated look on his face (you know what I mean, the one Van always wears when he's thinking deeply). He's also thinking about the dream he had that night, where a pillar of light surrounded him and took him to Earth, and of a dragon who almost killed him, except for that girl in his dream that warned him, he tries to picture her face and somehow Alice's appears into the girls appearance. He was then suddenly broken out of his trance by the REAL Alice who puts her face up to his and asked if he was OK. Startled at how close her face was, he's caught off guard and starts to mumble, saying he's fine, just a bit tired because of a dream he had. She eyes him a bit suspiciously, but let's it go when she decides he's just tired and all.
During PE that day, they were going to do fencing (O' yeah! It always reminds me of Heero in Gundam Wing, he's so cool ^_^). Rin and Jinpachi were up against each other. Both were pretty good, but it was obvious that Jinpachi had a bit more experience, and easily won. Suddenly he felt a strange wave of nostalgia, as if he done something similar like this before, then a scene flashes through his mind, one of two giant machines battling with swords, feathers fly down from the sky. He shakes his head to clear his mind, but can't get the vision out of his head. During biology class, Enju is reading a book about becoming a doctor and suddenly looks up at Jinpachi (remember, Millerna wanted to be a doctor). She continues to read, but there's a voice in her head.
"A princess doesn't need to become a doctor, she help her people with her position," Princess Eries says.
"But I want to help, please don't make me give up my medical studies, oneesama," she shouts in her mind.
"Eh?" Enju looks up again, startled by what she just experienced.
Later at lunch, they all met up together again. They all seem a bit distracted. Rin then asks Alice to show him where the library was after they got home. She agrees and Jinpachi gets this slightly pissed look on his face. After school, they meet up and they walk towards the library. Alice still wears a troubled look on her face, and Rin notices and asks what's wrong. She looks at him and his face suddenly replaces the shadowed face of the angel in her dream. She doesn't say anything for awhile, and suddenly she's engulfed in a vision of the great war of Gaea. Overwhelmed by the violence, she blacks out, and Rin just catches her in time. He then puts his jacket on her carries her back to his apartment and lays her on the sofa. He sits nearby and stares at her face, thinking about his own previous dream and how she looked like the girl who had saved him. He then goes to her side and kneels down by her, just staring at her for a few minutes. He looks at her face more closely and leans down toward her, his eyes in a dreamy state, half closed, half opened. He then slowly kisses her on the lips...
In Alice's mind, we see the scene when Hitomi and Allen were kissing on the bridge and then Van sees catches sight of them. Hitomi then notices him, and in Alice's sleep, she stirs a bit. Rin quickly backs away, afraid she might of caught him kissing her, but she's still asleep. He sits back on his seat and continues to stare at her, thinking. He feels a connection to her, as if he's drawn to her. He loses his thoughts as sleep plagues his mind. He then too begins to dream. He sees Escaflowne and himself fighting in it, at the same time Alice sees Escaflowne in her dream. They both speak out "Escaflowne" in their sleep and suddenly wake up. She asks where she is and Rin tells her she passed out and he carried her back. She's embarrassed and starts to leave, trying to thank him at the same time. He stares at her as she fumbles around to look for her stuff.
"Alice, just now, we both said the same thing. 'Escaflowne'," Rin says suddenly.
Alice stops in her tracks. How did he know about Escaflowne? It had been a dream, but how? How did he know? They stare at each other, and their past life forms place themselves over their bodies in each others eyes."Hitomi...""Van.."
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A Few Notes on How This Fic is Related to Please Save My Earth
So here's the little speel I promised after the end to tell how the story is derived from PSME. In PSME, there are 7 scientist from another planet who live on a base on the moon and watch the Earth everyday. Of these 7 there is jealousy and friendship between some, and love. They were all eventually wiped out by a virus on the base, and because their home world was distroyed in an intergalactical war, they didn't have a vaccine. When there were only 3 people left, one of who which was a doctor and he finally made the vaccine, but only had enough for one. The doctor was already infected, so he the vaccine wouldn't do any good on him. So he had the choice to either give it to the last women alive, who he was in love with, or give it to the other guy who had a relationship with the women he loved. Confusing, neh? Anyway, he ended up giving the vaccine to the guy, and that guy was living on the moon alone for 9 years, going crazy. Before the women died, she told him that they would meet again, and that the reason he seemed so familiar was because they were destined to meet again, over and over (this is where I came up with the part in the prologue). Anywho, they were reincarnated on Earth. Ok, now the characters reincarnated on Earth meet again. Sakaguchi Alice, who I named the reincarnation of Hitomi after, in PSME, she has moved from Hokkaido to Tokyo (I used Hokkaido as the place where Rin moved from). There she is neighbors with a 7 year-old kid named Kobayashi Rin, who keeps teasing her. She is 16 and has trouble standing up to him. Ok, now I absolutely have to tell this part even though it doesn't really have anything to do with the fic. While Alice was walking back home from school, she's stopped by Rin, she doesn't really want to talk with him because yesterday he spit gum in her shoe. He's chewwing gum as they speek and he calls her cruel for suspecting an "innocent" kid like him. Before that he had offered her gum, now she accepts it, he tells her to lean down and open her mouth. He then SPITS his gum into her mouth and pops a new piece into his. Funny, eh? But she cried after he ran off. So then the people who were reincarnated on Earth start having dreams of their past lives, like Alice in this fic and the others are having. As for the reason why she's engaged to Jinpachi, that'll have to wait for the next chapter to explain because I'm getting carried away now.
Well, that was that. Long, hah? I hoped you liked it and please read and review! Even if you don't I'll finish the story because I want to. Any comments please e-mail me at: foolishchild5@aol.com