From the many, many, many reviews I got... and all the great response... I
wrote this chapter faster than usual. I wrote on how Hitomi is controlling
the guymelef... I don't have a clue how they really worked so I'm making
everything up based on what I know. Hope you all like it!
To Fanta: Don't worry... I'm not going to yell or say you're wrong or anything from your review. I would have liked to email you personally but there was no email address for you. I really appreciate your review. Yes... I do know that a glaive is super heavy and it takes years to beat expert swordsmen but for the sake of the story I couldn't just sit around for years to have Hitomi learn how to use a glaive. Plus I said she never really mastered it and when she was training, she got really tired really fast. And she really wasn't doing anything fancy, but swinging it around and just blocking... the basics.
You also said something about how a character changes in such a short period of time. Well... that's what's so great about fanfiction. You can change a person's personality cause you have the power to change them. They don't have to make them stay the same as they were like in the series. You mentioned that Hitomi would probably take a lot of convincing to pick up a weapon... that might be true but with the circumstances that she was in (especially everyone always risking their life for her) she wanted to make a change and start protecting herself and grow up... not hide behind everyone. Another thing... with the battle with Allen... I knew very well about him being the best swordsman on Gaea and how she would never be able to beat him. Well, he knows Hitomi and underestimates her. That's his first mistake. He thinks she wouldn't even attack him. That's why his guard is let down 10 fold and she ends up beating him... especially with that last blow she delivered. I mean... who wouldn't stay down from that?
In other words, thank you for your review. I did ask myself a lot of questions as I was writing the story like some of the things you commented on. I hope you still keep reading my fanfiction Fanta. Just email me if you have any more comments. (P.S. I really want to learn naginata. I would like to talk to you about that some more!)
Disclaimer: I've said it 14 times and I'll say it again... I don't own Escaflowne or any characters except my own. Happy now?
She looked around her until something caught her eye. She never had used one before... but it was the only way. The only way she could get to Dilandau in time was to fly there. The fastest way to fly was by guymelef.
Chapter 15: Save him!
Hitomi didn't waste any time and sprinted over to one of the Dragonslayers' guymelefs closest to the opening of the docks. She dropped her glaive on the way because right now it would be useless. Thankfully the cockpit was open, and she clambered into it. Folken turned just in time to spot her jumping into it.
"Hitomi! What are you doing?!" Folken yelled.
But over all of the noise, Hitomi didn't hear a word he said. She was seated inside the guymelef looking around her, trying to figure out how to work it. Searching around with her hands near the opening, Hitomi found a medium sized button. She pressed it hoping it would close the cockpit door. Hitomi looked forward only to see an arrow flying towards her head, but it only struck the outside armor of the guymelef. The mecha was now shut and the door blocked the arrow from ever reaching inside.
Then one thought struck her mind. 'Why am I doing this?'
Hitomi froze in place... why was she jumping in this huge armor that she had never even been inside or even touched before?
Her inner voice answered her. 'Because he has saved you... multiple times...'
'But why did he save me? I thought he wanted to kill me from the start. Why did this all happen?!' Hitomi repeated these questions to her inner thoughts, and she couldn't push them aside.
'I have to save him. I'm against Van and the others now... and I am indebted to Dilandau... its what I have to do. I can't just stand here and watch Van kill any more people!'
Hitomi's gaze shot forward. She made her choice and she wouldn't regret it. She would now take the consequences... whatever they might be.
Now she sat inside the mecha, searching around with her hands, trying to work with the light that was peeking through the small opening in the visor. Her hands found what seemed to be slots for the arms and she placed her own arms through them. At the end of the arm slots, she could feel triggers and figure that they were for her weapons. Hitomi then slid her feet through some restraints but wondered what she had to do next. Before she could even look around, she felt something surround her body. It went all the way up to her chin and Hitomi started to panic. But as she sat in the guymelef and realized she could still breathe, she relaxed a bit. Hitomi prayed it wouldn't rise any further and put all her determination forward to get the guymelef moving.
She lifted one of her feet to see if the restraints would move with the motion. As soon as she elevated her foot a little, the guymelef's foot also raised but caused it to become unbalanced. Feeling the guymelef start to fall forward a little, she threw her foot back down. The inside shook a little and Hitomi tried to compose herself. She once again tried to lift her foot, but this time she pushed forward against the harness and felt that she was moving forward. She started to take baby steps, stumbling here and there, all the time soldiers ran out of her way to prevent from being crushed under its huge feet.
It seemed forever until she reached the open doorway leading to free sky.
"How the hell does this thing fly?!" she screamed.
Suddenly she heard a coming from inside the guymelef.
"Hitomi, what are you doing?! And where are you going with that guymelef?" Folken's voice sounded over the intercom.
Hitomi answered with urgency in her voice, "I can't explain now! Folken... can you get a hold of Dilandau on the intercom?"
"No... he is too far away from the Vione. It won't reach him... why?"
"Please just tell me how to work this!" Hitomi started to get impatient.
"Get out of that guymelef now Hitomi. That's an order. You've never had any experience with one of them before."
Starting to feel that she had little time left, Hitomi did the unthinkable. She wasn't about to listen to Folken when she knew Dilandau would be killed. So looking forward, she took the last few step toward the wide door, looked down, and stepped right off the edge, falling to the ground and an incredible speed.
Folken realized this and then shouted into the intercom. "Put your legs together and push your toes down! Quickly!"
Hitomi did as he said and felt the guymelef shift a little. The air that she felt rushing into the cockpit before stopped immediately. She started to breath heavily, not believing what she had just done. What if the guymelef was broken? What if it didn't fly? She would have died.
'Geez... when that adrenaline kicks in, I do some crazy things.' she thought to herself.
But now Hitomi had no clue how to make the guymelef actually fly forward, but the same voice from before answered her mind's question before she had time to inquire.
"I guess there is no stopping you Hitomi. You better had a good reason for this." Folken's fuzzy voice came over the inside speaker, "Flying takes getting used to. If you want to raise your altitude, you want to push down with your toes more and if you want to descend, you need to raise your toes. But remember, once your feet are parallel to the ground, your flying mode will shut down and you will fall to the ground unless you can reinitiate it again in time. To fly forward, just lean with your body while pressing with your feet to give you power. Your weapo..."
But he was cut off when Hitomi gave him quick thanks and flew off rather shakily into the distance. Keeping steady in the air became difficult for Hitomi and as she searched with her mind to find Dilandau, her breathing started to become labored. She was getting tired very rapidly. Not only was it from piloting the guymelef but also from the fighting she had just previously done. Soon enough, she had a direct lock on Dilandau and now tried to fly as fast as she could toward him. She flew higher and higher into the sky and passed a layer of clouds. The air became thinner and there was less oxygen in the air.
Flying quite some time like that, Hitomi could feel Dilandau's presence very strongly now. She flew above another layer of clouds and instantly saw the sun, which blinded her vision temporarily. The guymelef hovered there while she looked from side to side, trying to find any trace of Dilandau's red guymelef. To her right, she saw his armor facing the sun, and in front of him, the clouds stirred as an object moved through them. A little of Escaflowne peered above the clouds with Van riding on it's back.
Seeing this in her vision put Hitomi into full action. She thrust her toes down and pushed herself forward to make the guymelef use as much power it could to fly straight for Dilandau. Van was gaining on the unsuspecting Dilandau faster and faster.
'Shit! I'm not going to make it!' she cursed to herself.
~Dilandau~
The sun blared right through his visor, and he couldn't see a thing. Van had been diving into the clouds during their battle and would try and attack Dilandau by surprise. But so far all his efforts had been in vain. Now the sun was in his eyes from popping out of a layer of clouds, and black dots caused by the intense light impaired his vision. He only let his guard down for a few seconds but by what he remembered, so many things had happened in that short amount of time.
He remembered his name being yelled out from someone to his left. Then her heard a battle cry in front of him. A hard object hit his guymelef with great intensity from where he heard his name. A great screeching sound of metal piercing metal resounded around him, but he didn't feel a thing. He quickly turned his red guymelef around to face the cause and was greeted by one of his Dragonslayers' guymelefs. A sword jutted out from its left side and on the other end of the sword was Escaflowne.
Just then his intercom started to crackle. "Dilandau..."
A weak voice sounded in his guymelef but her recognized it. It wasn't one of his Dragonslayers... it was a woman... it was... Hitomi...
*****A/N*****
Sorry it was a little short. I wanted to end it there for chapter purposes... you know... keeping all the ideas together. Hope you all liked it! I won't be writing for about a week from today... I have finals coming up and all of our teachers and trying to finish things up and I need to study. Once summer break comes though I will write a lot and hopefully finish the story. Thanks for everyone who has read! Please remember to R&R! And sorry for any grammar mistakes! I didn't have too much time to read it over.
To Fanta: Don't worry... I'm not going to yell or say you're wrong or anything from your review. I would have liked to email you personally but there was no email address for you. I really appreciate your review. Yes... I do know that a glaive is super heavy and it takes years to beat expert swordsmen but for the sake of the story I couldn't just sit around for years to have Hitomi learn how to use a glaive. Plus I said she never really mastered it and when she was training, she got really tired really fast. And she really wasn't doing anything fancy, but swinging it around and just blocking... the basics.
You also said something about how a character changes in such a short period of time. Well... that's what's so great about fanfiction. You can change a person's personality cause you have the power to change them. They don't have to make them stay the same as they were like in the series. You mentioned that Hitomi would probably take a lot of convincing to pick up a weapon... that might be true but with the circumstances that she was in (especially everyone always risking their life for her) she wanted to make a change and start protecting herself and grow up... not hide behind everyone. Another thing... with the battle with Allen... I knew very well about him being the best swordsman on Gaea and how she would never be able to beat him. Well, he knows Hitomi and underestimates her. That's his first mistake. He thinks she wouldn't even attack him. That's why his guard is let down 10 fold and she ends up beating him... especially with that last blow she delivered. I mean... who wouldn't stay down from that?
In other words, thank you for your review. I did ask myself a lot of questions as I was writing the story like some of the things you commented on. I hope you still keep reading my fanfiction Fanta. Just email me if you have any more comments. (P.S. I really want to learn naginata. I would like to talk to you about that some more!)
Disclaimer: I've said it 14 times and I'll say it again... I don't own Escaflowne or any characters except my own. Happy now?
She looked around her until something caught her eye. She never had used one before... but it was the only way. The only way she could get to Dilandau in time was to fly there. The fastest way to fly was by guymelef.
Chapter 15: Save him!
Hitomi didn't waste any time and sprinted over to one of the Dragonslayers' guymelefs closest to the opening of the docks. She dropped her glaive on the way because right now it would be useless. Thankfully the cockpit was open, and she clambered into it. Folken turned just in time to spot her jumping into it.
"Hitomi! What are you doing?!" Folken yelled.
But over all of the noise, Hitomi didn't hear a word he said. She was seated inside the guymelef looking around her, trying to figure out how to work it. Searching around with her hands near the opening, Hitomi found a medium sized button. She pressed it hoping it would close the cockpit door. Hitomi looked forward only to see an arrow flying towards her head, but it only struck the outside armor of the guymelef. The mecha was now shut and the door blocked the arrow from ever reaching inside.
Then one thought struck her mind. 'Why am I doing this?'
Hitomi froze in place... why was she jumping in this huge armor that she had never even been inside or even touched before?
Her inner voice answered her. 'Because he has saved you... multiple times...'
'But why did he save me? I thought he wanted to kill me from the start. Why did this all happen?!' Hitomi repeated these questions to her inner thoughts, and she couldn't push them aside.
'I have to save him. I'm against Van and the others now... and I am indebted to Dilandau... its what I have to do. I can't just stand here and watch Van kill any more people!'
Hitomi's gaze shot forward. She made her choice and she wouldn't regret it. She would now take the consequences... whatever they might be.
Now she sat inside the mecha, searching around with her hands, trying to work with the light that was peeking through the small opening in the visor. Her hands found what seemed to be slots for the arms and she placed her own arms through them. At the end of the arm slots, she could feel triggers and figure that they were for her weapons. Hitomi then slid her feet through some restraints but wondered what she had to do next. Before she could even look around, she felt something surround her body. It went all the way up to her chin and Hitomi started to panic. But as she sat in the guymelef and realized she could still breathe, she relaxed a bit. Hitomi prayed it wouldn't rise any further and put all her determination forward to get the guymelef moving.
She lifted one of her feet to see if the restraints would move with the motion. As soon as she elevated her foot a little, the guymelef's foot also raised but caused it to become unbalanced. Feeling the guymelef start to fall forward a little, she threw her foot back down. The inside shook a little and Hitomi tried to compose herself. She once again tried to lift her foot, but this time she pushed forward against the harness and felt that she was moving forward. She started to take baby steps, stumbling here and there, all the time soldiers ran out of her way to prevent from being crushed under its huge feet.
It seemed forever until she reached the open doorway leading to free sky.
"How the hell does this thing fly?!" she screamed.
Suddenly she heard a coming from inside the guymelef.
"Hitomi, what are you doing?! And where are you going with that guymelef?" Folken's voice sounded over the intercom.
Hitomi answered with urgency in her voice, "I can't explain now! Folken... can you get a hold of Dilandau on the intercom?"
"No... he is too far away from the Vione. It won't reach him... why?"
"Please just tell me how to work this!" Hitomi started to get impatient.
"Get out of that guymelef now Hitomi. That's an order. You've never had any experience with one of them before."
Starting to feel that she had little time left, Hitomi did the unthinkable. She wasn't about to listen to Folken when she knew Dilandau would be killed. So looking forward, she took the last few step toward the wide door, looked down, and stepped right off the edge, falling to the ground and an incredible speed.
Folken realized this and then shouted into the intercom. "Put your legs together and push your toes down! Quickly!"
Hitomi did as he said and felt the guymelef shift a little. The air that she felt rushing into the cockpit before stopped immediately. She started to breath heavily, not believing what she had just done. What if the guymelef was broken? What if it didn't fly? She would have died.
'Geez... when that adrenaline kicks in, I do some crazy things.' she thought to herself.
But now Hitomi had no clue how to make the guymelef actually fly forward, but the same voice from before answered her mind's question before she had time to inquire.
"I guess there is no stopping you Hitomi. You better had a good reason for this." Folken's fuzzy voice came over the inside speaker, "Flying takes getting used to. If you want to raise your altitude, you want to push down with your toes more and if you want to descend, you need to raise your toes. But remember, once your feet are parallel to the ground, your flying mode will shut down and you will fall to the ground unless you can reinitiate it again in time. To fly forward, just lean with your body while pressing with your feet to give you power. Your weapo..."
But he was cut off when Hitomi gave him quick thanks and flew off rather shakily into the distance. Keeping steady in the air became difficult for Hitomi and as she searched with her mind to find Dilandau, her breathing started to become labored. She was getting tired very rapidly. Not only was it from piloting the guymelef but also from the fighting she had just previously done. Soon enough, she had a direct lock on Dilandau and now tried to fly as fast as she could toward him. She flew higher and higher into the sky and passed a layer of clouds. The air became thinner and there was less oxygen in the air.
Flying quite some time like that, Hitomi could feel Dilandau's presence very strongly now. She flew above another layer of clouds and instantly saw the sun, which blinded her vision temporarily. The guymelef hovered there while she looked from side to side, trying to find any trace of Dilandau's red guymelef. To her right, she saw his armor facing the sun, and in front of him, the clouds stirred as an object moved through them. A little of Escaflowne peered above the clouds with Van riding on it's back.
Seeing this in her vision put Hitomi into full action. She thrust her toes down and pushed herself forward to make the guymelef use as much power it could to fly straight for Dilandau. Van was gaining on the unsuspecting Dilandau faster and faster.
'Shit! I'm not going to make it!' she cursed to herself.
~Dilandau~
The sun blared right through his visor, and he couldn't see a thing. Van had been diving into the clouds during their battle and would try and attack Dilandau by surprise. But so far all his efforts had been in vain. Now the sun was in his eyes from popping out of a layer of clouds, and black dots caused by the intense light impaired his vision. He only let his guard down for a few seconds but by what he remembered, so many things had happened in that short amount of time.
He remembered his name being yelled out from someone to his left. Then her heard a battle cry in front of him. A hard object hit his guymelef with great intensity from where he heard his name. A great screeching sound of metal piercing metal resounded around him, but he didn't feel a thing. He quickly turned his red guymelef around to face the cause and was greeted by one of his Dragonslayers' guymelefs. A sword jutted out from its left side and on the other end of the sword was Escaflowne.
Just then his intercom started to crackle. "Dilandau..."
A weak voice sounded in his guymelef but her recognized it. It wasn't one of his Dragonslayers... it was a woman... it was... Hitomi...
*****A/N*****
Sorry it was a little short. I wanted to end it there for chapter purposes... you know... keeping all the ideas together. Hope you all liked it! I won't be writing for about a week from today... I have finals coming up and all of our teachers and trying to finish things up and I need to study. Once summer break comes though I will write a lot and hopefully finish the story. Thanks for everyone who has read! Please remember to R&R! And sorry for any grammar mistakes! I didn't have too much time to read it over.
