Chapter 5: The Fool(continuation 1)
*I really had to keep the title because it isn't the end of the beginning yet (if that made any sense). I felt it was important to finish the beginning of the journey.
A cool breeze blew through the burial shrine. Van looked up to see the Mytic Moon glowing beautifully above him. Van wondered what it looked like walking on instead of just viewing it from afar. He wondered if it looked like Gaea or was it completely different?
'Well I'll find out that answer tonight', he thought.
Suddenly a light appeared above and hovered above Van. The light came to a rest of the grass before him. Before he could inspect it, a figure started to emerge from the light. It was a women. A beautiful women with long flowing white hair.
"Hello King Van, I am the one that came to you the other night, my name is Sora. I've come to take you to the Mystic Moon or Earth as the moon people call it." She said delicately almost angelically.
"I just have one question before I go. Who are you?" Van asked. He yearned to know and he had to seize the opportunity.
"I am guardian of the portal between here and the Mystic Moon. Please bring her back here. Someone is planning to try to take over the portal and conquer the Mystic Moon. If she doesn't help then they will succeed." Sora answered as angelically as before.
"Alright then take me to the Mystic Moon."
Yukari waited patiently outside the house that she and two other girls, Oki and Mieko, lived. While she was waiting she thought up cleaver thing to say to her housemates when they came home and found a strange male living in the house. 'I'll tell them he is Hitomi's cousin,' Yukari thought, 'No, that won't work, they'll ask why he's not living at Hitomi's house. I got it! I'll just tell them he's a distant relative of mine who lives as a Witch doctor and I brought him here to help Hitomi. That should work!' She was so into her thoughts that she didn't see the light hovering over her.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Yukari screamed as the light passed to the ground before her. Then she calmed and reminded herself that weird things like this are now going to happen a lot, so she might as well get used to it. Out of the light appeared a man. He had dark unruly hair and beautiful ruby eyes. He was dressed oddly, but it didn't hide the fact that he was built. 'Wow. Now I know why Hitomi was so depressed when she came back. He's beautiful' Yukari thought.
The man turned and looked at Yukari. "Umm….are you Hitomi's friend?" He inquired timidly.
"Yes, my name is Uchida Yukari, you may call me Yukari though. Are you Van?"
"Yes I am. Am I…..am I on the Mytic Moon, I mean, Earth?" He looked so nervous that Yukari felt sorry for the boy since he was apparently out of his element.
From behind Van another figure appeared. Yukari thought it was an angel at first. Van saw that Yukari was distracted by something and looked back to see Sora standing behind him. He turned as she began to speak.
"You must hurry, you don't have much time. I'll return in two nights and you must return with or without her. Remember what will happen if you don't bring her back. Please I don't want to see anything to happen to either of my beautiful worlds." As she said the last sentence she slowly disappeared until only her voice remained and then she disappeared all together.
"What will happen if she doesn't return to….what's your planet called….o yes, Gaea?" Yukari asked as she led the wide-eyed Van into her house.
"So if she doesn't go back whoever this person is that wants to destroy it will?" Yukari asked horrified.
"Yes, it seems that way. When can I go see Hitomi? Can we go now? Where is she?" He said to eagerly that Yukari had to laugh. As she laugh his eyes grew angry. Yukari saw this and quickly explained.
"I nearly forgot that you're not from this world. Well let me fill you in on this planet. Number one, Hitomi is in a hos-pi-tal, got that? A hospital is a big building where you go to when you're injured or sick and they treat you or heal you as you might call it. Number two, at this hospital there are rules, one of the rules is what we call "visiting hours". Visiting hours are the periods of time you can go to visit a person inside the hospital. Now Hitomi is in one of these hospitals, but we can't see her right now because it's not visiting hours. So, in conclusion, we have to wait until the morning. So for now we should get some sleep."
She hoped Van got all that because she didn't feel like repeating it.
"Oh, and some other things, I live in this house with two other girls. When they get home tomorrow they're going to find it strange that an anonymous male is living in their house. So I made up an alibi. I am going to tell them that you are a distant relative that's come from Africa, which is a country on this planet. You've come here because you are trying to help Hitomi. Don't talk to them too much, I'll talk for you. Okay?" Yukari stopped suddenly and looked at his clothes. "I forgot! You can't where those clothes outside! No one where's those kind of clothes. I'll have to call up Toshi and he'll bring some over. So just stay there while a use the phone to call him."
Yukari got up and called Toshi. All the while Van watched her speak to a person in some weird looking mechanism. She put the phone down and sat down again.
"He lives next door so he'll be here in 5…..4…..3….2…..1.." The bell rang.
"That's him!" Yukari bounced away.
She came back with an armful of clothes. "He couldn't stay, but he's going to the hospital in the morning to visit Hitomi, so he said he'll pick us both up. I told him you were a friend of Hitomi's so you don't need to really cover anything up except for the fact your from another world. He's Hitomi's other best friend so I figured it shouldn't matter."
Yukari proceed to lead him upstairs to a little room with a window. Yukari placed the clothes down. "You can where these in the morning. If you need anything feel free to go and get it. I am going to sleep. Goodnight." She then left the room and Van was alone.
He hadn't slept much. He kept thinking about Hitomi. He wondered how she would be after not see her for five years. Suddenly someone knocked at the door. It was Yukari.
"Van? Get dressed we're going to leave for the hospital in a few minutes."
Van got up and dress in weird, loose-fitting clothing. He then wandered downstairs to see Yukari and another man about his age waiting. When Van reached them he reached his hand out. Van remembered Hitomi teaching him how they greet each other on the Mystic Moon, so Van took his hand and shook it.
"Hello, I am Toshi, Yukari tells me you're a friend of Hitomi's right? Said the boy.
"Yes. My name is Van Fanel." Van replied. He didn't know why but he didn't like the boy, not at all. 'I wonder why I don't like him?' Van thought.
Toshi kept up casual conversation until they reached a massive white building. Van had to restrain himself from looking awestruck as they entered the building and onto what they called an "elevator".
"So how long has it been since you've seen Hitomi?" Toshi asked.
"I haven't seen her in five years. I haven't talked to her in a year. It's been a while."
Yukari then led him into a door and there on the bed the sat Hitomi dressed in jeans and a plain white top. She looked up as they entered. Van stared in shock. She had gotten to be more beautiful since she left Gaea. Her hair was now long down her back and she had lost her adolescent figure. There was something wrong with the picture though. For a spilt second there eyes connected and he knew she recognized him, but then her eyes went blank.
"Who are you?" She asked anxiously. "A friend, a relative, or some random stranger?"
"I am a friend. My name is Van Fanel. We're old friends." Van said wishing he could hug her and say all the things he wanted to say since she left Gaea, but he knew that she was just Hitomi's shell.
"Well nice to meet you! It gets boring in here so I like visitors even if I can't remember them. Sit down mina."
As time went on Van felt himself getting more and more worried. 'I've been here for almost three hours and she still doesn't recognize me.' Just then a nurse came in and proclaimed that visiting hours were over and they had to leave.
"Bye bye mina. See you tomorrow!" exclaimed Hitomi as Toshi left and Yukari dragged a dazed Van out the door.
Van was silent the whole ride back to Yukari's house. And nearly collapse as he got into it. Yukari was just glad that her roommates where out again.
"She recognized me. It was only for a second, but she did! Then she went black the entire visit. That's not Hitomi. I'd do anything to get her back! What can I do?" He asked as he collapsed into a chair.
"You know what you're going to do? We are going to go back tomorrow and you are going to tell her about Gaea and you're going to tell her about everything that happened over there! You will get her memory back because you're the only one who can!" Yukari exclaimed. Van was shocked at how passionate she was. He knew he couldn't give up.
He wasn't going to fail today. As he went to open the door of Hitomi's room as Yukari trailed behind him.
"You're back? Great, I was starting to feel lonely." Hitomi said as they walked into the door.
"Yes. I am back. I am back to help you get your memory back, okay?" Van said with such seriousness that Hitomi couldn't help but say yes.
"I am just going to talk, please listen. As I said yesterday my name is Van Fanel. What you don't know about me is that I am not from this world, I am from a planet called Gaea. When we were fifteen you were sent to Gaea with me. I am the king of Fanelia a country in Gaea. You were there at my coronation as king, but the ceremony was cut short by an attack by a Zaibach soldier called Dilandau." Hitomi's eyes flickered for a second then went blank again. 'I am on the right track.' Van thought and kept going. "We took my guymelef, Escaflowne, and left. We then met Allan Shezar who was a knight of Astoria. You were the one that helped us out so many times with dowsing and visions and you could see the invisible guymelefs. We stopped the Zaibach leader Issac from unleashing the power of Atlantis. You helped save Gaea! Don't you remember??"
"No. I don't." Hitomi's eyes retained their blank expression.
Van couldn't hold back his emotions anymore. "I love you, Hitomi. I've loved you since you left Gaea, I've never for one moment stopped loving you even though I tried. I stopped communicating with you and.." He took out the pendent she gave him so many years ago. "I buried this. You gave me this. Remember? I tried to forget you but I couldn't because I love you too much. Hitomi please come back to me!" With that he broke down sobbing. He wanted to tell her this for so long, but he had just told it to Hitomi's shell not to her herself.
"Van…" Came a soft voice. He felt a hand smooth his hair. He look up to see Hitomi smiling down at him, with her eyes a blaze with emotion. "I love you too, Van."
He had been waiting to hear those words for five years. He reached for her face and drew her into a kiss Van had been waiting for for so long…….
*Yes I know I am pulling characters from the movie out of my ass. I just thought it fit. I loved Sora in the movie so I figured why not put her into my story ^_^
**please R&R this is my first loooooooonnnnnnnnng chapter and excuse spelling errors because I am a bad bad bad bad speller!! GOMEN!!
*I really had to keep the title because it isn't the end of the beginning yet (if that made any sense). I felt it was important to finish the beginning of the journey.
A cool breeze blew through the burial shrine. Van looked up to see the Mytic Moon glowing beautifully above him. Van wondered what it looked like walking on instead of just viewing it from afar. He wondered if it looked like Gaea or was it completely different?
'Well I'll find out that answer tonight', he thought.
Suddenly a light appeared above and hovered above Van. The light came to a rest of the grass before him. Before he could inspect it, a figure started to emerge from the light. It was a women. A beautiful women with long flowing white hair.
"Hello King Van, I am the one that came to you the other night, my name is Sora. I've come to take you to the Mystic Moon or Earth as the moon people call it." She said delicately almost angelically.
"I just have one question before I go. Who are you?" Van asked. He yearned to know and he had to seize the opportunity.
"I am guardian of the portal between here and the Mystic Moon. Please bring her back here. Someone is planning to try to take over the portal and conquer the Mystic Moon. If she doesn't help then they will succeed." Sora answered as angelically as before.
"Alright then take me to the Mystic Moon."
Yukari waited patiently outside the house that she and two other girls, Oki and Mieko, lived. While she was waiting she thought up cleaver thing to say to her housemates when they came home and found a strange male living in the house. 'I'll tell them he is Hitomi's cousin,' Yukari thought, 'No, that won't work, they'll ask why he's not living at Hitomi's house. I got it! I'll just tell them he's a distant relative of mine who lives as a Witch doctor and I brought him here to help Hitomi. That should work!' She was so into her thoughts that she didn't see the light hovering over her.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Yukari screamed as the light passed to the ground before her. Then she calmed and reminded herself that weird things like this are now going to happen a lot, so she might as well get used to it. Out of the light appeared a man. He had dark unruly hair and beautiful ruby eyes. He was dressed oddly, but it didn't hide the fact that he was built. 'Wow. Now I know why Hitomi was so depressed when she came back. He's beautiful' Yukari thought.
The man turned and looked at Yukari. "Umm….are you Hitomi's friend?" He inquired timidly.
"Yes, my name is Uchida Yukari, you may call me Yukari though. Are you Van?"
"Yes I am. Am I…..am I on the Mytic Moon, I mean, Earth?" He looked so nervous that Yukari felt sorry for the boy since he was apparently out of his element.
From behind Van another figure appeared. Yukari thought it was an angel at first. Van saw that Yukari was distracted by something and looked back to see Sora standing behind him. He turned as she began to speak.
"You must hurry, you don't have much time. I'll return in two nights and you must return with or without her. Remember what will happen if you don't bring her back. Please I don't want to see anything to happen to either of my beautiful worlds." As she said the last sentence she slowly disappeared until only her voice remained and then she disappeared all together.
"What will happen if she doesn't return to….what's your planet called….o yes, Gaea?" Yukari asked as she led the wide-eyed Van into her house.
"So if she doesn't go back whoever this person is that wants to destroy it will?" Yukari asked horrified.
"Yes, it seems that way. When can I go see Hitomi? Can we go now? Where is she?" He said to eagerly that Yukari had to laugh. As she laugh his eyes grew angry. Yukari saw this and quickly explained.
"I nearly forgot that you're not from this world. Well let me fill you in on this planet. Number one, Hitomi is in a hos-pi-tal, got that? A hospital is a big building where you go to when you're injured or sick and they treat you or heal you as you might call it. Number two, at this hospital there are rules, one of the rules is what we call "visiting hours". Visiting hours are the periods of time you can go to visit a person inside the hospital. Now Hitomi is in one of these hospitals, but we can't see her right now because it's not visiting hours. So, in conclusion, we have to wait until the morning. So for now we should get some sleep."
She hoped Van got all that because she didn't feel like repeating it.
"Oh, and some other things, I live in this house with two other girls. When they get home tomorrow they're going to find it strange that an anonymous male is living in their house. So I made up an alibi. I am going to tell them that you are a distant relative that's come from Africa, which is a country on this planet. You've come here because you are trying to help Hitomi. Don't talk to them too much, I'll talk for you. Okay?" Yukari stopped suddenly and looked at his clothes. "I forgot! You can't where those clothes outside! No one where's those kind of clothes. I'll have to call up Toshi and he'll bring some over. So just stay there while a use the phone to call him."
Yukari got up and called Toshi. All the while Van watched her speak to a person in some weird looking mechanism. She put the phone down and sat down again.
"He lives next door so he'll be here in 5…..4…..3….2…..1.." The bell rang.
"That's him!" Yukari bounced away.
She came back with an armful of clothes. "He couldn't stay, but he's going to the hospital in the morning to visit Hitomi, so he said he'll pick us both up. I told him you were a friend of Hitomi's so you don't need to really cover anything up except for the fact your from another world. He's Hitomi's other best friend so I figured it shouldn't matter."
Yukari proceed to lead him upstairs to a little room with a window. Yukari placed the clothes down. "You can where these in the morning. If you need anything feel free to go and get it. I am going to sleep. Goodnight." She then left the room and Van was alone.
He hadn't slept much. He kept thinking about Hitomi. He wondered how she would be after not see her for five years. Suddenly someone knocked at the door. It was Yukari.
"Van? Get dressed we're going to leave for the hospital in a few minutes."
Van got up and dress in weird, loose-fitting clothing. He then wandered downstairs to see Yukari and another man about his age waiting. When Van reached them he reached his hand out. Van remembered Hitomi teaching him how they greet each other on the Mystic Moon, so Van took his hand and shook it.
"Hello, I am Toshi, Yukari tells me you're a friend of Hitomi's right? Said the boy.
"Yes. My name is Van Fanel." Van replied. He didn't know why but he didn't like the boy, not at all. 'I wonder why I don't like him?' Van thought.
Toshi kept up casual conversation until they reached a massive white building. Van had to restrain himself from looking awestruck as they entered the building and onto what they called an "elevator".
"So how long has it been since you've seen Hitomi?" Toshi asked.
"I haven't seen her in five years. I haven't talked to her in a year. It's been a while."
Yukari then led him into a door and there on the bed the sat Hitomi dressed in jeans and a plain white top. She looked up as they entered. Van stared in shock. She had gotten to be more beautiful since she left Gaea. Her hair was now long down her back and she had lost her adolescent figure. There was something wrong with the picture though. For a spilt second there eyes connected and he knew she recognized him, but then her eyes went blank.
"Who are you?" She asked anxiously. "A friend, a relative, or some random stranger?"
"I am a friend. My name is Van Fanel. We're old friends." Van said wishing he could hug her and say all the things he wanted to say since she left Gaea, but he knew that she was just Hitomi's shell.
"Well nice to meet you! It gets boring in here so I like visitors even if I can't remember them. Sit down mina."
As time went on Van felt himself getting more and more worried. 'I've been here for almost three hours and she still doesn't recognize me.' Just then a nurse came in and proclaimed that visiting hours were over and they had to leave.
"Bye bye mina. See you tomorrow!" exclaimed Hitomi as Toshi left and Yukari dragged a dazed Van out the door.
Van was silent the whole ride back to Yukari's house. And nearly collapse as he got into it. Yukari was just glad that her roommates where out again.
"She recognized me. It was only for a second, but she did! Then she went black the entire visit. That's not Hitomi. I'd do anything to get her back! What can I do?" He asked as he collapsed into a chair.
"You know what you're going to do? We are going to go back tomorrow and you are going to tell her about Gaea and you're going to tell her about everything that happened over there! You will get her memory back because you're the only one who can!" Yukari exclaimed. Van was shocked at how passionate she was. He knew he couldn't give up.
He wasn't going to fail today. As he went to open the door of Hitomi's room as Yukari trailed behind him.
"You're back? Great, I was starting to feel lonely." Hitomi said as they walked into the door.
"Yes. I am back. I am back to help you get your memory back, okay?" Van said with such seriousness that Hitomi couldn't help but say yes.
"I am just going to talk, please listen. As I said yesterday my name is Van Fanel. What you don't know about me is that I am not from this world, I am from a planet called Gaea. When we were fifteen you were sent to Gaea with me. I am the king of Fanelia a country in Gaea. You were there at my coronation as king, but the ceremony was cut short by an attack by a Zaibach soldier called Dilandau." Hitomi's eyes flickered for a second then went blank again. 'I am on the right track.' Van thought and kept going. "We took my guymelef, Escaflowne, and left. We then met Allan Shezar who was a knight of Astoria. You were the one that helped us out so many times with dowsing and visions and you could see the invisible guymelefs. We stopped the Zaibach leader Issac from unleashing the power of Atlantis. You helped save Gaea! Don't you remember??"
"No. I don't." Hitomi's eyes retained their blank expression.
Van couldn't hold back his emotions anymore. "I love you, Hitomi. I've loved you since you left Gaea, I've never for one moment stopped loving you even though I tried. I stopped communicating with you and.." He took out the pendent she gave him so many years ago. "I buried this. You gave me this. Remember? I tried to forget you but I couldn't because I love you too much. Hitomi please come back to me!" With that he broke down sobbing. He wanted to tell her this for so long, but he had just told it to Hitomi's shell not to her herself.
"Van…" Came a soft voice. He felt a hand smooth his hair. He look up to see Hitomi smiling down at him, with her eyes a blaze with emotion. "I love you too, Van."
He had been waiting to hear those words for five years. He reached for her face and drew her into a kiss Van had been waiting for for so long…….
*Yes I know I am pulling characters from the movie out of my ass. I just thought it fit. I loved Sora in the movie so I figured why not put her into my story ^_^
**please R&R this is my first loooooooonnnnnnnnng chapter and excuse spelling errors because I am a bad bad bad bad speller!! GOMEN!!