Hio!! Well, lets just say finals are over and I'm going to not ramble any
further!
Disclaimer: Don't make me mad by suing me! Especially since I'm finally on summer break! So I will tell you that I don't own Escaflowne or anything related to it... yeah...
Just then his intercom started to crackle. "Dilandau..."
A weak voice sounded in his guymelef but he recognized it. It wasn't one of his Dragonslayers... it was a woman... it was... Hitomi...
Chapter 16: Wounded
At first Dilandau thought his ears were deceiving him. Did Hitomi's voice just come from the communicator? He just sat there in his guymelef looking back at where he just previously floated... and instead of him on the end of Escaflowne's sword, it was the blue guymelef that knocked him out of the way.
Van looked just as surprised as Dilandau. He had been concentrating on sneaking up on Dilandau to deliver the final blow that he never noticed the other guymelef flying right towards him. Now liquid metal flowed from the piercing, but the silver color it should have all been became tainted with red.
The sword, which was still protruding from the armor, was finally slid out when Van pulled Escaflowne back in disbelief. The voice he heard... sounded so familiar... but it couldn't be...
"Hitomi?" Van called out faintly.
Hitomi could barely hear anything around her though. She had pushed Dilandau out of the way in time but got seriously hurt by her actions. The giant sword that pierced through the armor had been so close to severing her body into 2 pieces. She was lucky enough to have been in such a position that it sliced her left side. It wasn't a deep wound, but the blood didn't seem to want to slow its escape from her body.
Hitomi's blood mixed with the liquid metal surrounding her, which was also draining from its guymelef's encasing. Her strength started to leave her and the simple task of keeping her feet together to keep the guymelef in the air became frustratingly hard. The world around her was blurring and all the might she held to stay conscious failed. Her feet went limp and the guymelef immediately started to fall to the ground.
Dilandau saw this immediately and charged his own armor towards Hitomi's, which was now plummeting to the ground. He caught up with her in no time at all and made a crima-claw in both hands to go under the guymelef's arms. When they were wrapped under its arms, Dilandau slowed both their guymelefs from falling. Careful not to jerk the guymelef, Dilandau flew back to the Vione, giving once last glance at a very stunned Van.
'Our fight will continue later Fanel...' Dilandau mindlessly told himself.
Van just floated there with Escaflowne under his feet as he stared off in the distance.
"What have I done?" he asked himself. "What if I killed her? What if that really was Hitomi?!"
He looked at Escaflowne's blade where a little blood on the edge still remained. Van stood there in shock...
'That was supposed to be Dilandau's blood on the blade...' he reminded himself.
The scene that happened in only a few seconds kept replaying over and over in his head... and the same voice of Hitomi was heard each time as it repeated before his eyes. Right before his sword went through Dilandau, another guymelef appeared with the person inside screaming Dilandau's name. The voice registered in his mind instantly. It was the voice of a person whom he had betrayed... a person who had trusted him, but in the end, received no respect and had been used.
Van swore he could almost feel the pain of the wound he inflicted. The air blew so gently around him, but Van wasn't paying any attention to anything around him. He stayed in this dreamlike state for quite a while and was suddenly woken when the Crusade called through his communicator. His head snapped up and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Crusade, but with only one ship behind it.
'Zaibach must have destroyed or captured the other ship during the fight.' he thought to himself.
Van took a deep breath of the air around him, but his throat seemed to clench up, making the air seem thin. He flew back to the levi-ships and landed inside. Van deftly jumped out of Escaflowne and slowly walked back to a room to try and get some sleep. But just after he jumped off Escaflowne's knee, Allen was walking toward him... looking as if he was trying to hold back any pain he was in.
"Van! What happened? Why was Hitomi on the Vione? I thought she was with you!" Allen was about to ask even more when Van just held his hand up to silence him.
"It's a long story... but to put it shortly... she heard us talking that one night. Hitomi's against us now... she's chosen her own side in this war Allen... she is now our enemy." Van put it plainly.
"What? How do you know? Van... Zaibach is forcing her to help them! We have to bring her back!"
"Allen!" Van was starting to get frustrated. "What don't you understand about what I'm telling you?! She was on the Vione because she jumped off Escaflowne on purpose! Then I stabbed her when she pushed Dilandau's guymelef out of the way!"
Van's voice seemed to crack after he said it. He didn't mean for it to come out so harsh. Since Van had told Allen all he needed to know, Van pushed his way past a stunned Allen and stormed off towards one of the rooms.
He sat down on one of the bunks and stared at the ground. Closing his eyes, Van rested his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. He sat there and silently prayed.
'Hitomi... I'm so sorry... Please don't die... just don't die!' Van felt a few tears form at his eyes and let them fall silently to the ground. For once in a long time, Van felt disgusted with himself for having hurt someone... even if now they were his enemy.
~Dilandau~
It seemed like eternity till the Vione was in Dilandau's sites again. It looked like the other army had retreated and the battle was over... for now. Dilandau looked down at the guymelef he was carrying and knew a new battle was to come... a battle of life or death.
Dilandau's guymelef landed inside the Vione, placing Hitomi's against a wall. He jumped out of his own, not caring where it was placed and jumped up to the opening of Hitomi's cockpit. He opened the damaged guymelef and what he saw shocked him.
Hitomi was sitting inside, one hand loosely clung to her lower left side. Blood soaked her shirt and covered her hand. Her face looked pale and showed with pain. He carefully reached in to pull her free from the guymelef and lifted her out. Dilandau held her in his arms and carefully dropped to the floor.
She stirred a little but did not open her eyes. The physicians that were helping the wounded had most of the injured gone, but the dead bodies were still littering the floor. But once the uninjured saw Dilandau fly in with an injured melef, they ran to get a stretcher. It was brought in right when Dilandau landed on the floor with the girl in his arms.
Walking over the stretcher, Dilandau laid Hitomi down. Just as he placed her onto it, her eyes slowly peeked open. Both looked into each other's eyes and a faint smile crossed Hitomi's features.
She just barely made out in a whisper, "I made it in time..." and she fell into unconsciousness.
~A few days later~
"Folken, how's her condition?"
After Hitomi had been wounded, she was immediately given medical attention by the doctors on the Vione.
"We're still not sure... she's still unstable to say anything for sure. Only time will tell."
Dilandau nodded his head at Folken. Hitomi's state for the past few days had been the same. The enormous amount of blood she lost made everyone doubt she would even make it through the first night. Many were greatly surprised to still see her hanging on to life.
Hitomi would stop breathing for short periods of time, but her body fought and forced her lungs to work again and again. She was truly a fighter, but Folken always checked on the young seer throughout the day to see if she had improved any.
Surprisingly none of their technology could help her recover faster. At first, they only patched up her wound and stopped the bleeding. Now Hitomi lie in the infirmary, struggling to stay alive. She sometimes stirred in her sleep but never did she open her eyes. All they could do is sit and wait to see how her body would handle on its own.
The Vione was now back to normal and the other soldiers that were injured in battle started to move around again. Everyone but one person.
Dilandau sat in his chair looking at all his Dragonslayers. All of them knew why Dilandau hadn't been himself lately. The girl from the Mystic Moon was still troubling his mind.
'Why did she save me? Why would she throw away her life to save mine?' Dilandau's mind couldn't comprehend anything Hitomi had done for him. He was lost in his thoughts and he would constantly blame himself for her condition.
'If I had been more aware of that bastard Van... than Hitomi wouldn't be hurt. Damnit! She better not die... cause I don't want to carry the blame!'
As the days passed by, Hitomi seemed to look better day-by-day. The color of her skin darkened and was no longer a ghostly pale white. The gash in her side started to heal more fully and her breathing and heartbeat returned to normal. With Hitomi finally starting to nurse back to health, the doctors who had taken care of her, Folken, and surprising Dilandau along with the Dragonslayers all let out a long held breath.
Back in the infirmary, Hitomi lay on one of the beds, her torso wrapped in bandages, the rest of her body covered by a blanket. She hadn't opened her eyes since she was last pulled out of the guymelef, but she occasionally stirred in her extensive sleep.
Finally consciousness was coming back to her. Her eyelids felt heavy and as her mind became aware of everything around her, dizziness overcame her. The immense amount of blood lost still made Hitomi weak and her throat felt coarse and dry. Her head hurt and she groaned slightly as she felt most of the numbness her body had been in disappear into pain. One of the doctors heard her and rushed to her bed.
"Miss... can you hear me?" the doctor asked her in a hushed voice.
Hitomi tried to speak but found that she could only make the sound of air coming through her throat. So instead of trying to speak she nodded her head, but found that this only made the world around her spin even more. The doctor smiled slightly and almost looked... relieved. He walked away, but Hitomi didn't see him go out the door because she closed her eyes again and fell asleep. As soon as her eyes were closed though, she heard someone calling her name.
"Hitomi? Hitomi can you hear me?"
She opened her eyes to find herself looking right at Folken.
Hitomi managed to use her voice, "Folken? Where am I?"
"You're in the infirmary on the Vione. Don't worry... you seem to be healing well. You shouldn't move too much or that wound will reopen." Folken told her.
Hitomi then remembered the slash to her side and all her memories came rushing back to her. She closed her eyes again and took a deep breath of air. Remembering how dry her throat was, she started to cough weakly. Folken smiled sympathetically at her, and helped her into a sitting position on the bed, moving slowly so not to open her wound again. A glass of water was brought to her and she drank a few sips slowly but steadily.
Folken was glad to see her awake again but said he had to go. Watching him leave, she scooted back under the covers and lay down in the bed. Her wound still hurt even if she made the slightest movement so she found a comfortable position and fell asleep once more.
Dilandau had found out later that day that Hitomi had woken up. He felt in a sense relieved, but decided against going and asking her all the questions that were on his mind. She was still probably extremely weak and needed some actual sleep.
It wasn't till a few days later when Hitomi had more energy that she got a few visitors.
"Miss Hitomi? Can we come in?"
A boy with light brown hair poked his head into the doorway.
"Uhh... yeah... sure... you can come in." Hitomi told him.
He opened the door and two other boys that looked the same age as him walked in behind.
"Miss Hitomi..." but before he could finish, Hitomi cut him off.
"Please don't call me that... just Hitomi is fine."
(AN: I refer to Chesta as Shesta... I prefer Shesta... if anyone knows its wrong then tell me.)
"Alright... Hitomi... I'm Gatty. This is Shesta and the one next to him is Miguel." Gatty told her.
"You're all Dragonslayers... aren't you?" Hitomi asked.
"Yes. I guess our armor gives it away." Gatty chuckled slightly, "Well... the reason we are here is because we wished to thank you."
"You want to thank me? For what?" Hitomi looked at them confused.
"Actually Shesta here wanted to thank you. Go on Shesta... don't be so shy." Gatty nudged Shesta forward.
"Ummm... thank you Miss Hitomi. Thank you for saving my life." he said in a whisper.
Hitomi still looked at him like she had no idea of what he was talking about. Since Gatty saw that Shesta wasn't going to explain he jumped in.
"About a week ago when the battle first started, Miguel, Shesta, and I went out in our guymelefs to fight Escaflowne. Shesta was about to get struck from behind and we weren't able to warn him in time. We all thought that that was going to be the end of him but then we saw you on the back of Escaflowne. We both saw how you changed Escaflowne's direction. If you hadn't done that... then Shesta wouldn't be standing here right now."
Hitomi now knew what they were talking about but looked down at her bed. "I just couldn't let Van kill anymore people. It was nothing really."
Gatty smiled at her when Hitomi took her gaze off the blanket. "We have to go now. We're all glad to see you alive. For everything that you have done for us... it would have been horrible to see you die. Regain your energy soon! Then you can train with us!"
With that, the three Dragonslayers walked out of the infirmary. Hitomi sighed... yes... she did hope to recover sooner. She felt dirty and all cramped up from sleeping and sitting on the infirmary bed for nearly a week. Until that time, she could only hope that the decision she had made in this war would be a good one.
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And that's it for chapter 16! I'm leaving for Ocean City, Maryland tomorrow. It's a wonderful 12 hour drive there and I'll probably just write some of chapter 17 during the car ride... but I won't have access to internet or computer while there... and I'm going to be there till next Saturday. That means no updates for about... 2 weeks... really sorry if you hate to wait but I'm really getting some writer's block now that I've written about everything I've planned out. I know I'll think of some way to end the story, but until then you will just have to wait. I want to thank everyone again for all their reviews and support! And if you like Inuyasha and you like vampire fanfictions, I'm going to be writing one with a friend of mine (she's coming on the trip to Ocean City). That's what I'm going to be writing during the trip! So check it out when I actually get a chapter posted... but don't start looking till I have this next chapter posted... it will probably take me awhile. Thanks everyone! And please don't forget to review!
Disclaimer: Don't make me mad by suing me! Especially since I'm finally on summer break! So I will tell you that I don't own Escaflowne or anything related to it... yeah...
Just then his intercom started to crackle. "Dilandau..."
A weak voice sounded in his guymelef but he recognized it. It wasn't one of his Dragonslayers... it was a woman... it was... Hitomi...
Chapter 16: Wounded
At first Dilandau thought his ears were deceiving him. Did Hitomi's voice just come from the communicator? He just sat there in his guymelef looking back at where he just previously floated... and instead of him on the end of Escaflowne's sword, it was the blue guymelef that knocked him out of the way.
Van looked just as surprised as Dilandau. He had been concentrating on sneaking up on Dilandau to deliver the final blow that he never noticed the other guymelef flying right towards him. Now liquid metal flowed from the piercing, but the silver color it should have all been became tainted with red.
The sword, which was still protruding from the armor, was finally slid out when Van pulled Escaflowne back in disbelief. The voice he heard... sounded so familiar... but it couldn't be...
"Hitomi?" Van called out faintly.
Hitomi could barely hear anything around her though. She had pushed Dilandau out of the way in time but got seriously hurt by her actions. The giant sword that pierced through the armor had been so close to severing her body into 2 pieces. She was lucky enough to have been in such a position that it sliced her left side. It wasn't a deep wound, but the blood didn't seem to want to slow its escape from her body.
Hitomi's blood mixed with the liquid metal surrounding her, which was also draining from its guymelef's encasing. Her strength started to leave her and the simple task of keeping her feet together to keep the guymelef in the air became frustratingly hard. The world around her was blurring and all the might she held to stay conscious failed. Her feet went limp and the guymelef immediately started to fall to the ground.
Dilandau saw this immediately and charged his own armor towards Hitomi's, which was now plummeting to the ground. He caught up with her in no time at all and made a crima-claw in both hands to go under the guymelef's arms. When they were wrapped under its arms, Dilandau slowed both their guymelefs from falling. Careful not to jerk the guymelef, Dilandau flew back to the Vione, giving once last glance at a very stunned Van.
'Our fight will continue later Fanel...' Dilandau mindlessly told himself.
Van just floated there with Escaflowne under his feet as he stared off in the distance.
"What have I done?" he asked himself. "What if I killed her? What if that really was Hitomi?!"
He looked at Escaflowne's blade where a little blood on the edge still remained. Van stood there in shock...
'That was supposed to be Dilandau's blood on the blade...' he reminded himself.
The scene that happened in only a few seconds kept replaying over and over in his head... and the same voice of Hitomi was heard each time as it repeated before his eyes. Right before his sword went through Dilandau, another guymelef appeared with the person inside screaming Dilandau's name. The voice registered in his mind instantly. It was the voice of a person whom he had betrayed... a person who had trusted him, but in the end, received no respect and had been used.
Van swore he could almost feel the pain of the wound he inflicted. The air blew so gently around him, but Van wasn't paying any attention to anything around him. He stayed in this dreamlike state for quite a while and was suddenly woken when the Crusade called through his communicator. His head snapped up and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Crusade, but with only one ship behind it.
'Zaibach must have destroyed or captured the other ship during the fight.' he thought to himself.
Van took a deep breath of the air around him, but his throat seemed to clench up, making the air seem thin. He flew back to the levi-ships and landed inside. Van deftly jumped out of Escaflowne and slowly walked back to a room to try and get some sleep. But just after he jumped off Escaflowne's knee, Allen was walking toward him... looking as if he was trying to hold back any pain he was in.
"Van! What happened? Why was Hitomi on the Vione? I thought she was with you!" Allen was about to ask even more when Van just held his hand up to silence him.
"It's a long story... but to put it shortly... she heard us talking that one night. Hitomi's against us now... she's chosen her own side in this war Allen... she is now our enemy." Van put it plainly.
"What? How do you know? Van... Zaibach is forcing her to help them! We have to bring her back!"
"Allen!" Van was starting to get frustrated. "What don't you understand about what I'm telling you?! She was on the Vione because she jumped off Escaflowne on purpose! Then I stabbed her when she pushed Dilandau's guymelef out of the way!"
Van's voice seemed to crack after he said it. He didn't mean for it to come out so harsh. Since Van had told Allen all he needed to know, Van pushed his way past a stunned Allen and stormed off towards one of the rooms.
He sat down on one of the bunks and stared at the ground. Closing his eyes, Van rested his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. He sat there and silently prayed.
'Hitomi... I'm so sorry... Please don't die... just don't die!' Van felt a few tears form at his eyes and let them fall silently to the ground. For once in a long time, Van felt disgusted with himself for having hurt someone... even if now they were his enemy.
~Dilandau~
It seemed like eternity till the Vione was in Dilandau's sites again. It looked like the other army had retreated and the battle was over... for now. Dilandau looked down at the guymelef he was carrying and knew a new battle was to come... a battle of life or death.
Dilandau's guymelef landed inside the Vione, placing Hitomi's against a wall. He jumped out of his own, not caring where it was placed and jumped up to the opening of Hitomi's cockpit. He opened the damaged guymelef and what he saw shocked him.
Hitomi was sitting inside, one hand loosely clung to her lower left side. Blood soaked her shirt and covered her hand. Her face looked pale and showed with pain. He carefully reached in to pull her free from the guymelef and lifted her out. Dilandau held her in his arms and carefully dropped to the floor.
She stirred a little but did not open her eyes. The physicians that were helping the wounded had most of the injured gone, but the dead bodies were still littering the floor. But once the uninjured saw Dilandau fly in with an injured melef, they ran to get a stretcher. It was brought in right when Dilandau landed on the floor with the girl in his arms.
Walking over the stretcher, Dilandau laid Hitomi down. Just as he placed her onto it, her eyes slowly peeked open. Both looked into each other's eyes and a faint smile crossed Hitomi's features.
She just barely made out in a whisper, "I made it in time..." and she fell into unconsciousness.
~A few days later~
"Folken, how's her condition?"
After Hitomi had been wounded, she was immediately given medical attention by the doctors on the Vione.
"We're still not sure... she's still unstable to say anything for sure. Only time will tell."
Dilandau nodded his head at Folken. Hitomi's state for the past few days had been the same. The enormous amount of blood she lost made everyone doubt she would even make it through the first night. Many were greatly surprised to still see her hanging on to life.
Hitomi would stop breathing for short periods of time, but her body fought and forced her lungs to work again and again. She was truly a fighter, but Folken always checked on the young seer throughout the day to see if she had improved any.
Surprisingly none of their technology could help her recover faster. At first, they only patched up her wound and stopped the bleeding. Now Hitomi lie in the infirmary, struggling to stay alive. She sometimes stirred in her sleep but never did she open her eyes. All they could do is sit and wait to see how her body would handle on its own.
The Vione was now back to normal and the other soldiers that were injured in battle started to move around again. Everyone but one person.
Dilandau sat in his chair looking at all his Dragonslayers. All of them knew why Dilandau hadn't been himself lately. The girl from the Mystic Moon was still troubling his mind.
'Why did she save me? Why would she throw away her life to save mine?' Dilandau's mind couldn't comprehend anything Hitomi had done for him. He was lost in his thoughts and he would constantly blame himself for her condition.
'If I had been more aware of that bastard Van... than Hitomi wouldn't be hurt. Damnit! She better not die... cause I don't want to carry the blame!'
As the days passed by, Hitomi seemed to look better day-by-day. The color of her skin darkened and was no longer a ghostly pale white. The gash in her side started to heal more fully and her breathing and heartbeat returned to normal. With Hitomi finally starting to nurse back to health, the doctors who had taken care of her, Folken, and surprising Dilandau along with the Dragonslayers all let out a long held breath.
Back in the infirmary, Hitomi lay on one of the beds, her torso wrapped in bandages, the rest of her body covered by a blanket. She hadn't opened her eyes since she was last pulled out of the guymelef, but she occasionally stirred in her extensive sleep.
Finally consciousness was coming back to her. Her eyelids felt heavy and as her mind became aware of everything around her, dizziness overcame her. The immense amount of blood lost still made Hitomi weak and her throat felt coarse and dry. Her head hurt and she groaned slightly as she felt most of the numbness her body had been in disappear into pain. One of the doctors heard her and rushed to her bed.
"Miss... can you hear me?" the doctor asked her in a hushed voice.
Hitomi tried to speak but found that she could only make the sound of air coming through her throat. So instead of trying to speak she nodded her head, but found that this only made the world around her spin even more. The doctor smiled slightly and almost looked... relieved. He walked away, but Hitomi didn't see him go out the door because she closed her eyes again and fell asleep. As soon as her eyes were closed though, she heard someone calling her name.
"Hitomi? Hitomi can you hear me?"
She opened her eyes to find herself looking right at Folken.
Hitomi managed to use her voice, "Folken? Where am I?"
"You're in the infirmary on the Vione. Don't worry... you seem to be healing well. You shouldn't move too much or that wound will reopen." Folken told her.
Hitomi then remembered the slash to her side and all her memories came rushing back to her. She closed her eyes again and took a deep breath of air. Remembering how dry her throat was, she started to cough weakly. Folken smiled sympathetically at her, and helped her into a sitting position on the bed, moving slowly so not to open her wound again. A glass of water was brought to her and she drank a few sips slowly but steadily.
Folken was glad to see her awake again but said he had to go. Watching him leave, she scooted back under the covers and lay down in the bed. Her wound still hurt even if she made the slightest movement so she found a comfortable position and fell asleep once more.
Dilandau had found out later that day that Hitomi had woken up. He felt in a sense relieved, but decided against going and asking her all the questions that were on his mind. She was still probably extremely weak and needed some actual sleep.
It wasn't till a few days later when Hitomi had more energy that she got a few visitors.
"Miss Hitomi? Can we come in?"
A boy with light brown hair poked his head into the doorway.
"Uhh... yeah... sure... you can come in." Hitomi told him.
He opened the door and two other boys that looked the same age as him walked in behind.
"Miss Hitomi..." but before he could finish, Hitomi cut him off.
"Please don't call me that... just Hitomi is fine."
(AN: I refer to Chesta as Shesta... I prefer Shesta... if anyone knows its wrong then tell me.)
"Alright... Hitomi... I'm Gatty. This is Shesta and the one next to him is Miguel." Gatty told her.
"You're all Dragonslayers... aren't you?" Hitomi asked.
"Yes. I guess our armor gives it away." Gatty chuckled slightly, "Well... the reason we are here is because we wished to thank you."
"You want to thank me? For what?" Hitomi looked at them confused.
"Actually Shesta here wanted to thank you. Go on Shesta... don't be so shy." Gatty nudged Shesta forward.
"Ummm... thank you Miss Hitomi. Thank you for saving my life." he said in a whisper.
Hitomi still looked at him like she had no idea of what he was talking about. Since Gatty saw that Shesta wasn't going to explain he jumped in.
"About a week ago when the battle first started, Miguel, Shesta, and I went out in our guymelefs to fight Escaflowne. Shesta was about to get struck from behind and we weren't able to warn him in time. We all thought that that was going to be the end of him but then we saw you on the back of Escaflowne. We both saw how you changed Escaflowne's direction. If you hadn't done that... then Shesta wouldn't be standing here right now."
Hitomi now knew what they were talking about but looked down at her bed. "I just couldn't let Van kill anymore people. It was nothing really."
Gatty smiled at her when Hitomi took her gaze off the blanket. "We have to go now. We're all glad to see you alive. For everything that you have done for us... it would have been horrible to see you die. Regain your energy soon! Then you can train with us!"
With that, the three Dragonslayers walked out of the infirmary. Hitomi sighed... yes... she did hope to recover sooner. She felt dirty and all cramped up from sleeping and sitting on the infirmary bed for nearly a week. Until that time, she could only hope that the decision she had made in this war would be a good one.
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And that's it for chapter 16! I'm leaving for Ocean City, Maryland tomorrow. It's a wonderful 12 hour drive there and I'll probably just write some of chapter 17 during the car ride... but I won't have access to internet or computer while there... and I'm going to be there till next Saturday. That means no updates for about... 2 weeks... really sorry if you hate to wait but I'm really getting some writer's block now that I've written about everything I've planned out. I know I'll think of some way to end the story, but until then you will just have to wait. I want to thank everyone again for all their reviews and support! And if you like Inuyasha and you like vampire fanfictions, I'm going to be writing one with a friend of mine (she's coming on the trip to Ocean City). That's what I'm going to be writing during the trip! So check it out when I actually get a chapter posted... but don't start looking till I have this next chapter posted... it will probably take me awhile. Thanks everyone! And please don't forget to review!
