Silent Secrets
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne!! Only the characters I made up myself!
We are coming to the final chapter of this story!! *waves finish-flag in the air* There will also be an epilogue and I have my other story to write on and already some new ideas, so you don't have to worry from never hearing from me again *g*.
Dilly: Now that you said everything you wanted to say, get on with the story!
Oh sorry Dilly, I forgot that you wanted to come over when I'm writing the last chapter of this thing to see, what's going to happen with you. I...
Dilly: Will you please just go on with the story?!? I'm not in a good mood today...
Okay, okay, I'm writing, I'm writing... ENJOY!!!
Chapter 19 : Final Battle
Van was to shocked to say anything, as were the rest inhabitants of the room (~ not very much to count -_-° ~). Did Hitomi just really say something? Okay, what she had said wasn't quite lady-like, but she had said something!
"Hitomi is the... is the curse... really broken?", Van finally got out.
"Yeah, it seems so... Oh Van, I'm so happy!!"
Without a slight thought about their current situation, Hitomi threw her arms around Van's neck. She cried tears of happiness. Van hugged her bag, also oblivious to the death-glares coming from the other side of the room.
Lived couldn't believe it! His curse had been broken! He had put in it so much time and power, it had taken him over a month to recover again! And now it had been broken just like that!
Have I underestimated these two? Naaaa, couldn't be. They were just lucky. In reality they're weak and pitiful souls who don't know what's good for them. It will end for both of them here and now!!
With that decision made, Lived got up from his position on the throne. Hitomi noticed this, but didn't turn around. She whispered to Van:
"Van, he got up from his throne. He'll probably wants to take care of us himself. What shall we do?"
Van made a quick glance towards Lived. He had started to walk towards them, at his side the other ghoul, who had survived the explosion. Van didn't quite know himself, what to do. They were stuck in this room, had no way out and didn't really have a chance against him in the condition they were in now. Suddenly Van remembered what his mother had told them about the prophecy:
"Escaflowne...", he whispered. "We need Escaflowne. Even if don't now how he will help us, but the prophecy told that to destroying the evil, we have to get Escaflowne!"
"But how..."
Hitomi didn't have the time to finish the question. Just as the first word had left her mouth, the pendant once again started to glow. A faint melody could be heard coming from it.
"The song...", Hitomi said. Without really knowing, what she was doing, she closed her eyes and started to sing:
"Win dain a lotica..."
As the song went on, the pulsing light started to grow once more and the pendant loosened itself from Hitomi's neck. It floated once around Van then some meters away and stopped in mid-air. The glow got even brighter and you could clearly see a figure starting to materialised out of the light. As the song ended and Hitomi collapsed into Van's arms, the glow died down. There it stood, kneeling right in front of Van, proud and tall. Escaflowne, the legendary Ispano Guymelef.
While Van slowly walked over to it Lived seemed to have been frozen to the ground. He didn't move or did anything else but stare in disbelieve at the Guymelef. Van was now standing at the pink energist on the left side of Escaflowne. He slowly raised his hand towards. As he touched the energist, Van felt pain surge through his hand and blood beginning to flown from it into the energist. (~I didn't like it in the movie, how Van had to go through the pain of having those horrifying big needles pushed into his neck and I didn't want to bring a dragon Energist into this... ~) The energist started to beat in the rhythm of Van's heart. A hiss was heard and steam came out of the chest. It opened to reveal the cockpit. With a final glance at Hitomi and a last Don't worry, Van made it into the cockpit. It closed itself on own accord and Van quickly got used to the controls. It was as if he had done it his whole life! Van got with Escaflowne to his feet and turned to Lived, who finally started to move again at Van's action. The ghoul beside Lived started to attack Escaflowne, but he was no match for the power of the ancient Guymelef. With one slash of Escaflowne's sword, Van had sliced the ghoul into half. It disappear with a loud scream.
Van called over to Lived:
"Are you going to fight me know or will you call for more of you `pets´? Come and fight me!"
"Ha! Do you really think, you can defeat me? Not even with the Escaflowne you will manage such an impossible task!"
Lived transformed into his shadow like form, but this time it matched the size of Escaflowne. Out of nowhere a sword materialised into his claw. They both started to advance forward at the same time, swords clashing together, sending sparks in all directions. Van had to admit, that Lived was strong, but he would never give up. For Gaia's, his, and especially for Hitomi's sake! Swords clashed over and over together, but never found their target.
Hitomi watched from afar as the battle went on between Guymelef and Demon. No one seemed to gain the upper hand and when Lived once cut a wound into Escaflowne's leg, Van managed to strike his sword into the shoulder of the Demon. After a while, Hitomi noticed that something wasn't right. Van seemed to lose more and more energy, while Lived seemed to get even stronger. Van was pushed further and further back. Somehow, Escaflowne slowly started to turn black, as his and with that also Van's heartbeat lessened more and more. Hitomi didn't know what to do.
Van? Can you still hear me? What's happening?
That Demon before me is absorbing my life-energy and I don't know how to stop him! I can't hold on much longer! You must try to get out of here!!!
NO! I'm not going to leave you! Together we can make it! Trust in you own strength and in that of Escaflowne! Trust him!
As Van heard Hitomi say this, he felt new energy rising inside of himself. He couldn't let Hitomi down. Even when she would have tried to get out, Lived would have probably gone after her. He felt his anger rising as he remembered all those bad things Hitomi had to go through, because of her "uncle". He wouldn't fail against Lived. He would win and destroy him.
Van attacks began to increase in strength and speed. Now it was Lived, who had to back away from Escaflowne.
The demon had a hard time blocking the attacks and he didn't know, why he couldn't absorb anymore of Van's energy. His eyes fell on Hitomi and he understood. She was giving Van her powers and was hindering him at the same time from absorbing it. His rage was now directly directed towards her and he forgot for one moment his fight with Escaflowne.
That was his downfall...
Van had noticed Lived's attention begin to drift away from battle and put all his strength into his next attack. The energist nearly exploded with the amount of power racing through it and Escaflowne, now again in his brilliant white, glowed in an intense light. With a final thrust of his sword, Van pierced Lived chest. It went right through his heart and black blood gushed out. Lived gave an inhuman scream and fell to the ground, finally defeated.
"Maybe you have defeated me, but I will take you with me to hell!", he said with his last breath, before vanishing into nothingness.
"HITOMI!", Van shouted, got out of Escaflowne and ran to the motionless figure lying on the floor. He cradled her in his arms and she slowly opened her eyes:
"Did you make it?"
"WE made it. I couldn't have done it without you. It's over now."
Just as those words left his mouth, the floor started to shake and the walls began to collapse. Black boulders were falling out of the sky.
Hitomi: "So much to the question of this thing having a ceiling, but how are we going to get out of here?" Her grip tightened on Van's shoulders.
"There must be a way out. What...?"
Van, while speaking, had turned to Escaflowne and nearly fell over in astonishment. Direct in front of both their eyes Escaflowne formed into a dragon! Van looked at Hitomi and she nodded. They both quickly climbed on. Van took the controls in his hands, while Hitomi behind him put her arms around his waist. Escaflowne's energist started to glow once more and out of nowhere a portal opened up form them. Ducking falling boulders and flames that had erupted from the ground, Escaflowne flew through the portal and out of the black dimension, or whatever it had been.
So Van and Hitomi have finally won the battle!!!! Next chappie will be up on Saturday!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne!! Only the characters I made up myself!
We are coming to the final chapter of this story!! *waves finish-flag in the air* There will also be an epilogue and I have my other story to write on and already some new ideas, so you don't have to worry from never hearing from me again *g*.
Dilly: Now that you said everything you wanted to say, get on with the story!
Oh sorry Dilly, I forgot that you wanted to come over when I'm writing the last chapter of this thing to see, what's going to happen with you. I...
Dilly: Will you please just go on with the story?!? I'm not in a good mood today...
Okay, okay, I'm writing, I'm writing... ENJOY!!!
Chapter 19 : Final Battle
Van was to shocked to say anything, as were the rest inhabitants of the room (~ not very much to count -_-° ~). Did Hitomi just really say something? Okay, what she had said wasn't quite lady-like, but she had said something!
"Hitomi is the... is the curse... really broken?", Van finally got out.
"Yeah, it seems so... Oh Van, I'm so happy!!"
Without a slight thought about their current situation, Hitomi threw her arms around Van's neck. She cried tears of happiness. Van hugged her bag, also oblivious to the death-glares coming from the other side of the room.
Lived couldn't believe it! His curse had been broken! He had put in it so much time and power, it had taken him over a month to recover again! And now it had been broken just like that!
Have I underestimated these two? Naaaa, couldn't be. They were just lucky. In reality they're weak and pitiful souls who don't know what's good for them. It will end for both of them here and now!!
With that decision made, Lived got up from his position on the throne. Hitomi noticed this, but didn't turn around. She whispered to Van:
"Van, he got up from his throne. He'll probably wants to take care of us himself. What shall we do?"
Van made a quick glance towards Lived. He had started to walk towards them, at his side the other ghoul, who had survived the explosion. Van didn't quite know himself, what to do. They were stuck in this room, had no way out and didn't really have a chance against him in the condition they were in now. Suddenly Van remembered what his mother had told them about the prophecy:
"Escaflowne...", he whispered. "We need Escaflowne. Even if don't now how he will help us, but the prophecy told that to destroying the evil, we have to get Escaflowne!"
"But how..."
Hitomi didn't have the time to finish the question. Just as the first word had left her mouth, the pendant once again started to glow. A faint melody could be heard coming from it.
"The song...", Hitomi said. Without really knowing, what she was doing, she closed her eyes and started to sing:
"Win dain a lotica..."
As the song went on, the pulsing light started to grow once more and the pendant loosened itself from Hitomi's neck. It floated once around Van then some meters away and stopped in mid-air. The glow got even brighter and you could clearly see a figure starting to materialised out of the light. As the song ended and Hitomi collapsed into Van's arms, the glow died down. There it stood, kneeling right in front of Van, proud and tall. Escaflowne, the legendary Ispano Guymelef.
While Van slowly walked over to it Lived seemed to have been frozen to the ground. He didn't move or did anything else but stare in disbelieve at the Guymelef. Van was now standing at the pink energist on the left side of Escaflowne. He slowly raised his hand towards. As he touched the energist, Van felt pain surge through his hand and blood beginning to flown from it into the energist. (~I didn't like it in the movie, how Van had to go through the pain of having those horrifying big needles pushed into his neck and I didn't want to bring a dragon Energist into this... ~) The energist started to beat in the rhythm of Van's heart. A hiss was heard and steam came out of the chest. It opened to reveal the cockpit. With a final glance at Hitomi and a last Don't worry, Van made it into the cockpit. It closed itself on own accord and Van quickly got used to the controls. It was as if he had done it his whole life! Van got with Escaflowne to his feet and turned to Lived, who finally started to move again at Van's action. The ghoul beside Lived started to attack Escaflowne, but he was no match for the power of the ancient Guymelef. With one slash of Escaflowne's sword, Van had sliced the ghoul into half. It disappear with a loud scream.
Van called over to Lived:
"Are you going to fight me know or will you call for more of you `pets´? Come and fight me!"
"Ha! Do you really think, you can defeat me? Not even with the Escaflowne you will manage such an impossible task!"
Lived transformed into his shadow like form, but this time it matched the size of Escaflowne. Out of nowhere a sword materialised into his claw. They both started to advance forward at the same time, swords clashing together, sending sparks in all directions. Van had to admit, that Lived was strong, but he would never give up. For Gaia's, his, and especially for Hitomi's sake! Swords clashed over and over together, but never found their target.
Hitomi watched from afar as the battle went on between Guymelef and Demon. No one seemed to gain the upper hand and when Lived once cut a wound into Escaflowne's leg, Van managed to strike his sword into the shoulder of the Demon. After a while, Hitomi noticed that something wasn't right. Van seemed to lose more and more energy, while Lived seemed to get even stronger. Van was pushed further and further back. Somehow, Escaflowne slowly started to turn black, as his and with that also Van's heartbeat lessened more and more. Hitomi didn't know what to do.
Van? Can you still hear me? What's happening?
That Demon before me is absorbing my life-energy and I don't know how to stop him! I can't hold on much longer! You must try to get out of here!!!
NO! I'm not going to leave you! Together we can make it! Trust in you own strength and in that of Escaflowne! Trust him!
As Van heard Hitomi say this, he felt new energy rising inside of himself. He couldn't let Hitomi down. Even when she would have tried to get out, Lived would have probably gone after her. He felt his anger rising as he remembered all those bad things Hitomi had to go through, because of her "uncle". He wouldn't fail against Lived. He would win and destroy him.
Van attacks began to increase in strength and speed. Now it was Lived, who had to back away from Escaflowne.
The demon had a hard time blocking the attacks and he didn't know, why he couldn't absorb anymore of Van's energy. His eyes fell on Hitomi and he understood. She was giving Van her powers and was hindering him at the same time from absorbing it. His rage was now directly directed towards her and he forgot for one moment his fight with Escaflowne.
That was his downfall...
Van had noticed Lived's attention begin to drift away from battle and put all his strength into his next attack. The energist nearly exploded with the amount of power racing through it and Escaflowne, now again in his brilliant white, glowed in an intense light. With a final thrust of his sword, Van pierced Lived chest. It went right through his heart and black blood gushed out. Lived gave an inhuman scream and fell to the ground, finally defeated.
"Maybe you have defeated me, but I will take you with me to hell!", he said with his last breath, before vanishing into nothingness.
"HITOMI!", Van shouted, got out of Escaflowne and ran to the motionless figure lying on the floor. He cradled her in his arms and she slowly opened her eyes:
"Did you make it?"
"WE made it. I couldn't have done it without you. It's over now."
Just as those words left his mouth, the floor started to shake and the walls began to collapse. Black boulders were falling out of the sky.
Hitomi: "So much to the question of this thing having a ceiling, but how are we going to get out of here?" Her grip tightened on Van's shoulders.
"There must be a way out. What...?"
Van, while speaking, had turned to Escaflowne and nearly fell over in astonishment. Direct in front of both their eyes Escaflowne formed into a dragon! Van looked at Hitomi and she nodded. They both quickly climbed on. Van took the controls in his hands, while Hitomi behind him put her arms around his waist. Escaflowne's energist started to glow once more and out of nowhere a portal opened up form them. Ducking falling boulders and flames that had erupted from the ground, Escaflowne flew through the portal and out of the black dimension, or whatever it had been.
So Van and Hitomi have finally won the battle!!!! Next chappie will be up on Saturday!!!