AN: Sadly, I still don't own Escaflowne, even though I use their characters. Megami and all the other non-Escaflowne characters still belong to me though!





Megami's mother walked up the stairs, feeling guilty that she had acted so rude to her daughter. She walked past Megami's room and saw her lying on the bed, she wasn't crying, no, her mother hadn't seen her cry since her brother's funeral. Her mother decided to leave it for the night, to talk about it in the morning.

The next morning Megami woke up about 6:00 and walked downstairs to make some breakfast. When she stumbled into the light of the kitchen she realized she had fallen asleep in her clothes, but something was missing. Megami suddenly remembered what it was, it was her bra! She had forgotten all about it when she had left the night before. She just hoped no one had found it yet.

Megami walked over to the fridge when she noticed a sticky not on the door. It read:

I'm sorry dear, but I had to leave early this morning. I will be back by dinner time. I have something special planned for today. Don't eat anything before I get home.

Hakujitsu

Her mother had signed the letter with the signature that she used for employees or clients of hers. She didn't even finish with 'I love you' or anything. Is that all Megami was to her mother, just another client, an employee?

Every day on this day (September 18th) every year, Megami bought white, red, yellow, and pink roses for the grave behind the school in a little clearing. Her brother's grave.

He wasn't actually buried there; he was actually buried in a grave yard on a hill over looking the school. It was quite beautiful, but Megami preferred her grave to the real one.

She didn't bother to stop and talk with anyone when she arrived at school. She even forgot about trying to find her missing bra, but she didn't really care, Cree probably had it (and he probably wouldn't give it back either!).

Megami went right for the beautiful giant stone far behind the school. It was behind the main building, but was hidden away from plain few. She put the roses down on the grave and sat on her knees in front of it.

It started coming back, the day the school was burned down, the day Safiro Sun, the King and Megami's beloved brother, was killed even murdered by an insane maniac in some sort of giant robot armor, commonly known to them as armor.

Megami had been with Safiro when they were attacked by the enemy. It seemed to be an unprovoked attack on the child filled school. No one knew what was to happen; the enemy had been invisible, using some sort of unknown technology. Everyone had called them the invisible enemy. After the enemy had broken through their defenses they had sent in ground troops to kill everyone inside, but it didn't work because the knights and soldiers had already evacuated everyone who couldn't fight.

Megami was suddenly enveloped in flames and smoke. She could hear the cries of the injured; she heard the maniacal laugh of the man that had killed her brother. She knew. she knew that that mad had enjoyed seeing Safiro die and Megami run to his side.

Megami pressed her hands against the grave, trying to suffocate the tears of pain, the tears of anger. She rested her four-head against it, feeling the cold stone of the grave against her soft warm skin.

She didn't notice Cree, Allen, Von, Hitomi and the others standing nearby. She couldn't see them; she was in her own world now, a world of the past, a world full of pain. Megami was forever trapped in that world.

'What's happening?' Dryden asked a little hesitantly. Cree was looking at Megami; he didn't even bother to look back when he spoke.

'Today, two years ago, King Safiro Sun, Megami's brother was murdered. We were attacked by an invisible enemy. We didn't even see it coming.' Cree said that last part with despise, he couldn't believe they hadn't seen the enemy.

'The Invisible Enemy?' Von asked; could it actually be the Zaibach? Cree shook his head in agreement.

'The man, rather the boy, who had been in charge of the attacks, was in some sort of red armor that shot liquid metal and flames.' Cree explained, his voice was dripping with despise. Everyone gasped; Cree took his gaze off of Megami to look at them when a cry of slight pain came from her.