The Wrong Girl
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne or any of its characters.
Chapter 5
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Ah. The sun feels so warm on my face. Wait, the SUN? I thought I had curtains. Yukari slowly lifts her eyelids and sees that she is not in her bed, but on grass in the middle of a large clearing. She quickly sits up and scans her surroundings. Trees, trees, and more trees. Yukari sighs heavily. Great, just great. How did I get here? I don't remember anything except that I was at Hitomi's house last night. Well, guess I'd better try and find the road.
Yukari stands up, brushes her skirt off and sets out in a random direction. Two hours later she still hadn't found the road and was ready to give up, when she spotted something red a couple of feet to her left. She quickly runs over and stops dead. A boy, no older than 16 in stature, was lying facedown on the ground in his own blood. "Oh my gosh, what happened?" Whispers an alarmed Yukari.
In the boy's left hand was a round pink stone, a little smaller than his hand. In his right hand, gripped tightly, was a sword. Yukari gingerly turned him onto his back and knelt down next to him. "Good thing I took an EMT class last summer" She took the sword out of his hand and took his wrist. She pressed her index and middle fingers into his wrist trying to get a pulse. Tha-Thump Tha-Thump. "Good still alive, barely but still alive"
The boy, she noticed for the first time, had messy reddish-black hair, high cheekbones, and fairly long eyelashes. "Now why can't guys in my high school look like this?" Yukari muttered. All of a sudden his eyes snap open "Aaahhhhh!!!" Yukari jumps back and tries to get her heart to slow down, and return to normal. "Hey! Aren't you supposed to be unconscious?" "How do you figure?" "Well you had almost no pulse!" "Go and get help," gasps loudly "Hurry" "Well I would but I have no idea where I am in the first place" "Go through there and you should come to the road eventually" "I'm not going anywhere without you" "Why?" "I probably won't be able to find you again, so come on"
Yukari gently sat him up and pulled him to his feet. "Ok, one foot at a time. One, two, one, two" "What's your name?" "Yukari, yours?" "Van"