Silent Secrets
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne, only the characters I made up myself. So here is the second part of the maze and as promised, already on Sunday in the same week!!! And there is going to happen something you'll all be happy about! ENJJJJOOOOYYYYYY
Chapter 18: Broken
+++++++ some LONG time later since the last chapter...+++++++++++++++
I'm tired Van. This way seems to have no end and we will have no strength left to fight Lived, if it goes on like that.
Hitomi's feet hurt badly, even after Van had flown them already some of the way, when there had been another trap or even just like that to keep both their strength.
Come on Hitomi. It'll hopefully be not long anymore and in case it does... *picking Hitomi up* I'll just have to carry you!!
Hey! I can still walk on my own, ya know. And you also need your strength.
You're my strength. You're all I need. And when this is over nothing is going to separate me from you again, not even the advisers.
That sounds very good... *silence for some time* Van! What's that!?!
Van stopped and looked into the direction she was pointing and in which the pink light-ball had flown of to. There again was a giant room. On the other side was a big door and Van assumed, that was where they would finally meet Lived. There was only one slight problem... It was the floor again, but this time it wasn't missing. On it were docent and docent of tiles, out of which seemed to be coming flashes of lightning. Flying was no option, because of the danger of being hit by one of the flashes of lightning. There seemed to be no way of getting across the room and even the tiny pink ball at first didn't look like knowing a way.
This time it was Hitomi who found something out. She noticed after a while of watching, that one of the tiles at the beginning never threw flashes of lightning. She pointed that one out to Van and even the light listened (~ or it at least looked so... -_-° AND I ALSO WANT ONE OF THOSE!! *g* ~).
The light took of and pounced on one of the tiles and it started to glow. The glow vanished again and a tile near the other one stopped to throw flashes. But there were still two tiles between the two. Van looked at Hitomi:
It's the only way probably. Maybe if we time right, the flashes won't get us. But this time I'm going first. I don't want anything happening to you.
Okay... Please be careful...
Van kissed Hitomi gently, then made his way across the room. The ball always made the way free for him to go on and Hitomi was not far away. Still it seemed to take ages to get to the door. Van noticed, that the tiles made them move around the room in at least three circles, before they came to the end. Hitomi finally made it also. With one last intake of breath and the light now floating between the two, they went inside.
As soon as they were through the door it closed behind them and a click could be heard coming from the other side, although they hadn't noticed a key.
"So you two really made it and in such a short time. Very strange..."
They both turned into the direction of the voice and there he was... Lived. He was sitting on a huge dark throne, as dark as the rest of this... this... whatever it was.
The moment they turned around Lived noticed the tiny light between them:
"Ahhhhhhhh... I think I know the answer to my question. My, My, what is this little thing here? I have never seen something like it. But first let's get down to business. Shadow Ghouls! Come forth!!"
Out of the darkness came to giant Ghouls of blackness. They both had a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. They were nearly twice as big as Van.
Van noticed that Hitomi doubled over in pain, tightly grasping the pendant, which by now pounded wildly just like the ball of light, who was swirling around her head.
Hitomi? What is it? HITOMI?!?!
It hurts. It hurts so much. It's as if someone is trying to rip something out of me.
"I see that my Ghouls also have the same effect on you as I have. Let's see how long you beloved Dragon can keep them away from you. Seize them!"
The Ghouls started to advance towards Van and Hitomi and Van just had the time to raise his sword and block of the first attack.
It felt as if someone had hit him with a boulder. He barely had the strength to block the attacks and although he tried as hard as he could, he didn't get one chance to attack them himself. Every time he tried, the other one would interfere and would mostly attack from behind. He even tried flying and attacking from above, but it was no use. When he tried to fly, they would just pick him out of the air like a ripe apple from a tree.
Van was already breathing hard after only 3 minutes and had severely wounds on his arms, chest and back.
He could still see Hitomi out of the corner of his eye as she tried to get rid of the pain. The pink light was now floating in front of the pendant and an aura was building around Hitomi. He saw Lived sit on his throne, watching him, not moving a muscle. Lived didn't seem to think about attacking Hitomi. He enjoyed her being in pain and didn't bother the growing aura around her. Seeing all this made Van's blood boil and he charged another attack at the two ghouls. With one quick movement, one of them knocked the sword out of his hands and then gave him a blow, that threw him across the room. He opened his eyes again to see one of the ghouls standing right in front of him, sword raised. Van tried to get up, but some sort of force stopped him from doing so.
VAN! You gotta get up!
I can't Hitomi!!! Someone is forcing me to the ground with his powers. And that someone is definitely Lived!
The ghouls was about to strike. Van could already see in his inner eye the giant sword piercing him into two pieces. But then he heard her scream. Heard her scream with every bit of her soul and feel the power level rising to an unknown height. He heard Lived give some very rude curses, but his whole being was filled with that voice and the live-powers it seem to bring him:
"VAN!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
The room exploded in a wave of bright pink and white light. Van heard the ghouls in front of him give an ear-splitting scream, then a loud "crash " was heard. The light slowly faded out of sight and brought itself around Hitomi lying motionless on the floor, her pendant again pulsing with the beat of a human heart. Van could finally move again and seeing that one of the ghouls had somehow vanished, he quickly made his way towards Hitomi kneeled down beside her, picking her up into his arms.
"Hitomi!?! Can you hear me? Please answer! Hitomi!!!"
She slowly steered and began to cough. He turned her on her side and was shocked, when she coughed up blood and something that looked like a small black crystal pearl came out with it. It rolled a bit on the floor, stopped and then blew up into thousand tiny shards. Hitomi coughed a bit more.
In the background you could hear Lived whisper over and over again:
"No, this can not be true. I had made that perfect and now it just breaks. This can not be true..."
Meanwhile Van was still worried about Hitomi. He felt some sort of change inside of her, but couldn't put his finger on.
"Hitomi? Is everything okay again?"
He waited patiently for an answer, but what happened next, was not what he had suspected. She answered him alright. She opened her mouth and words came out for the first time in her life:
"Shit! That hurt a lot!"
****end of this chappie****
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I know, I'm meaner than mean to leave you hanging there, but it was just to tempting to stop here and leave you guy hanging here again!! I just like to torture people... *g* Anyway, the showdown is not far ahead and will be in the next chapter. Be patient till then. R&R Bye!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne, only the characters I made up myself. So here is the second part of the maze and as promised, already on Sunday in the same week!!! And there is going to happen something you'll all be happy about! ENJJJJOOOOYYYYYY
Chapter 18: Broken
+++++++ some LONG time later since the last chapter...+++++++++++++++
I'm tired Van. This way seems to have no end and we will have no strength left to fight Lived, if it goes on like that.
Hitomi's feet hurt badly, even after Van had flown them already some of the way, when there had been another trap or even just like that to keep both their strength.
Come on Hitomi. It'll hopefully be not long anymore and in case it does... *picking Hitomi up* I'll just have to carry you!!
Hey! I can still walk on my own, ya know. And you also need your strength.
You're my strength. You're all I need. And when this is over nothing is going to separate me from you again, not even the advisers.
That sounds very good... *silence for some time* Van! What's that!?!
Van stopped and looked into the direction she was pointing and in which the pink light-ball had flown of to. There again was a giant room. On the other side was a big door and Van assumed, that was where they would finally meet Lived. There was only one slight problem... It was the floor again, but this time it wasn't missing. On it were docent and docent of tiles, out of which seemed to be coming flashes of lightning. Flying was no option, because of the danger of being hit by one of the flashes of lightning. There seemed to be no way of getting across the room and even the tiny pink ball at first didn't look like knowing a way.
This time it was Hitomi who found something out. She noticed after a while of watching, that one of the tiles at the beginning never threw flashes of lightning. She pointed that one out to Van and even the light listened (~ or it at least looked so... -_-° AND I ALSO WANT ONE OF THOSE!! *g* ~).
The light took of and pounced on one of the tiles and it started to glow. The glow vanished again and a tile near the other one stopped to throw flashes. But there were still two tiles between the two. Van looked at Hitomi:
It's the only way probably. Maybe if we time right, the flashes won't get us. But this time I'm going first. I don't want anything happening to you.
Okay... Please be careful...
Van kissed Hitomi gently, then made his way across the room. The ball always made the way free for him to go on and Hitomi was not far away. Still it seemed to take ages to get to the door. Van noticed, that the tiles made them move around the room in at least three circles, before they came to the end. Hitomi finally made it also. With one last intake of breath and the light now floating between the two, they went inside.
As soon as they were through the door it closed behind them and a click could be heard coming from the other side, although they hadn't noticed a key.
"So you two really made it and in such a short time. Very strange..."
They both turned into the direction of the voice and there he was... Lived. He was sitting on a huge dark throne, as dark as the rest of this... this... whatever it was.
The moment they turned around Lived noticed the tiny light between them:
"Ahhhhhhhh... I think I know the answer to my question. My, My, what is this little thing here? I have never seen something like it. But first let's get down to business. Shadow Ghouls! Come forth!!"
Out of the darkness came to giant Ghouls of blackness. They both had a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. They were nearly twice as big as Van.
Van noticed that Hitomi doubled over in pain, tightly grasping the pendant, which by now pounded wildly just like the ball of light, who was swirling around her head.
Hitomi? What is it? HITOMI?!?!
It hurts. It hurts so much. It's as if someone is trying to rip something out of me.
"I see that my Ghouls also have the same effect on you as I have. Let's see how long you beloved Dragon can keep them away from you. Seize them!"
The Ghouls started to advance towards Van and Hitomi and Van just had the time to raise his sword and block of the first attack.
It felt as if someone had hit him with a boulder. He barely had the strength to block the attacks and although he tried as hard as he could, he didn't get one chance to attack them himself. Every time he tried, the other one would interfere and would mostly attack from behind. He even tried flying and attacking from above, but it was no use. When he tried to fly, they would just pick him out of the air like a ripe apple from a tree.
Van was already breathing hard after only 3 minutes and had severely wounds on his arms, chest and back.
He could still see Hitomi out of the corner of his eye as she tried to get rid of the pain. The pink light was now floating in front of the pendant and an aura was building around Hitomi. He saw Lived sit on his throne, watching him, not moving a muscle. Lived didn't seem to think about attacking Hitomi. He enjoyed her being in pain and didn't bother the growing aura around her. Seeing all this made Van's blood boil and he charged another attack at the two ghouls. With one quick movement, one of them knocked the sword out of his hands and then gave him a blow, that threw him across the room. He opened his eyes again to see one of the ghouls standing right in front of him, sword raised. Van tried to get up, but some sort of force stopped him from doing so.
VAN! You gotta get up!
I can't Hitomi!!! Someone is forcing me to the ground with his powers. And that someone is definitely Lived!
The ghouls was about to strike. Van could already see in his inner eye the giant sword piercing him into two pieces. But then he heard her scream. Heard her scream with every bit of her soul and feel the power level rising to an unknown height. He heard Lived give some very rude curses, but his whole being was filled with that voice and the live-powers it seem to bring him:
"VAN!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
The room exploded in a wave of bright pink and white light. Van heard the ghouls in front of him give an ear-splitting scream, then a loud "crash " was heard. The light slowly faded out of sight and brought itself around Hitomi lying motionless on the floor, her pendant again pulsing with the beat of a human heart. Van could finally move again and seeing that one of the ghouls had somehow vanished, he quickly made his way towards Hitomi kneeled down beside her, picking her up into his arms.
"Hitomi!?! Can you hear me? Please answer! Hitomi!!!"
She slowly steered and began to cough. He turned her on her side and was shocked, when she coughed up blood and something that looked like a small black crystal pearl came out with it. It rolled a bit on the floor, stopped and then blew up into thousand tiny shards. Hitomi coughed a bit more.
In the background you could hear Lived whisper over and over again:
"No, this can not be true. I had made that perfect and now it just breaks. This can not be true..."
Meanwhile Van was still worried about Hitomi. He felt some sort of change inside of her, but couldn't put his finger on.
"Hitomi? Is everything okay again?"
He waited patiently for an answer, but what happened next, was not what he had suspected. She answered him alright. She opened her mouth and words came out for the first time in her life:
"Shit! That hurt a lot!"
****end of this chappie****
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I know, I'm meaner than mean to leave you hanging there, but it was just to tempting to stop here and leave you guy hanging here again!! I just like to torture people... *g* Anyway, the showdown is not far ahead and will be in the next chapter. Be patient till then. R&R Bye!!!