Okay, quick note here. PAY ATTENTION, DON'T GO DOWN YET! Now that I have it...this story will follow the Escaflowne plotline up until a certain point, so please bear with me. Things will go a little bit different, and some of the people in it will change a bit. So please, please bear with me.
I'm sorry that the last chapter didn't go up right away. Something was wrong with my account for a short while, which is why this one is going up with the second chapter. Plus, this one is shorter.
This story will be much more mini-chaptered than any other story, simply because I'm changing the POV (point of view) so often. This will go pretty quick, I hope. So, without further ado....
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Chapter 3: Hitomi: Strange New World (And all these weird people, too....)
Amano was going to race the American girl. It was the last day he would be here, and he wanted to race a new girl he would probably never see again. Why did these things always happen to me?
"Hey, Hitomi!" Amano shouted back. "I'll talk to you in a second, okay?"
"A-All right!" I shouted back. Maybe I was only getting jealous. Maybe Amano was only going to race an American fan of his. Although I truly wondered whether that was all she was. I have the strangest feeling that she isn't at all what she says she is.
"I'll start you off!" I shouted to them. "Ready?"
"You bet!" shouted the mystery girl.
"Let's go!"
"Set! GO!" I shouted and they took off. Amano was in the lead almost immediately, but the mystery girl was catching up quickly. Her strides were longer and her speed only just higher. By the time they finished, the girl had beaten him by merely a few feet.
"Y-You're fast," Amano panted, smiling at her. "A good race, Galis."
"Thank you, Captain," Galis said, panting even faster and louder than Amano. "I ran as fast as I could, yet I still only just beat ya. You really shouldn't have underestimated me so."
"You noticed," he caught his breath.
"Come on, Sakura, Syaoran," Galis took the two people she was with by the arm. "Let's get up to the shrine. I want to see it before we go." Sakura and Syaoran looked startled before merely following her. I took my chance and asked Amano my question.
"A-Amano...don't think less of me, but if I can run a hundred meters in the time it takes to swing my pendent thirteen times, will you...will you give me my very first kiss?"
I bowed low, holding out my pendent for him to take. However, a bright light shone through my eyes and a boy wearing strange clothes suddenly appeared in front of me on the track.
"Who are you?" Amano demanded immediately.
"Don't take that tone with me!" said the boy through his teeth.
"I-It's that guy...it's the guy from my dream!" I realized. It was the same guy from my dream. But somehow, it was different than before. It wasn't exactly the same.
"What?" Amano asked.
It was different. Those three kids weren't there in my dream. Yukari had been, though. And I'd been running in my dream. I hadn't started yet now. It was all so different, and yet exactly the same.
So different and yet exactly the same.
The boy gasped suddenly, in a fear so real that I felt he was telling the truth before he even began to speak. "There's a land dragon coming! Get out of here, girl!"
"Hey, buddy, calm down-" Amano began, but the boy shoved him out of the way with his hand. The one which dangerously wielded a sword. He pointed the sword to a seemingly blank and sudden space in front of him, but almost instantly sparks flew unnaturally from the area.
I saw strange trees and heard a strange hissing noise. The monster within the trees could only be described as a dragon.
"Come on, you heard the man, move it, move it!" shouted Galis. She shoved Sakura and Syaoran away, toward the shrine, and grabbed my hand, too. "Come on, Kanzaki, this is no place for any of us. Even that guy shouldn't be here, but he's supposed to be anyway. Come on!"
My eyes widened in shock at the girl's boundless knowledge of something I could not even begin to understand as of yet. She sounded so sure of herself. My feelings told me to follow her. And I obeyed.
"Let's go."
Our feet pounded the ground, but I heard the dragon behind me and I had to turn around.
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Yes, this story is going to focus in on Angel a bit more than Sakura or Hitomi. But all three play the vital roles, which you will find out with the revealing of the next chapter. Stay tuned!
