The Wrong Girl
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne or any of the characters.
A/N: Please! Review! I'm doing my best but I need more opinions. Postings will be less often because of volleyball. I've got to train for the try-outs in August. ^_^
Chapter12
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Yukari inhaled deeply. Hmm it smells like flowers but it sure is cold. Maybe I forgot to close the window. She opened her eyes and instead of being in her room she was in the garden. It was an overcast day and it was about noon. "Oh, I must've fallen asleep here last night" She stood up, brushed herself off and hurried back to the castle.
When Yukari was close to the doors she could see Merle. She was frantically waving for her to hurry up. "Hey! Where were you? I've been looking for you everywhere. The maid went to your room to get you but you weren't there. The bed wasn't even slept in." Merle yelled in one breath.
"Yeah, about that. I went out to the garden to look at the stars and I guess I fell asleep." Yukari answered as she made her way up to Merle. "I didn't think anyone would notice"
"Well you were wrong, also Allen Schezar and his sister Celena are coming today. Lord Van wanted everyone to greet them, and that includes you!"
"Okay, but who're Allen and Celena?"
"They're friends of Lord Van's. Also Hitomi's and mine too."
"Oh, well let's go then"
"You can't wear that!"
"What?! It's my uniform, what's wrong with it?"
"It's dirty. Come on, I'll get you something better to wear" Merle grabbed Yukari's hand and pulled her up to her room. Merle went over to the wardrobe and pulled out a yellow dress, it was ankle length with a scoop neckline. "Try this on" Yukari pulled off her uniform and put on the dress. It was too big in the front. Merle kept pulling out dresses from the wardrobe but all of them were too big in the front for her. Just when Merle was going to snap she pulled out a reddish dress that was a similar to Yukari's hair.
"Perfect!" Yukari exclaimed
"Okay, now put these shoes on and let's go" They hurried out of the room and down to the dining hall. When they pushed open the door everyone was already there.
"Merle, Yukari! It's good you got here when you did. Allen and Celena will be here in a few minutes." Van said as he hurried over to them "Come with me" He led the girls to a group of elderly men. "These are my advisors, they wanted to talk with you"
"Pleased to meet you" Yukari said
"As you" the man to her left said, "We understand that you're from the Mystic Moon. And you know Lady Hitomi"
"Yes, she's my best friend actually. And are you talking about Earth, cause that's what it's called."
"When Lady Hitomi came she was a great help with her terra cards and visions. Can you also do these things?"
"Errrr…no, I really have nothing that special about me. I'm just a regular 16 year old, unless you want something organized. Other than that I probably won't be of much help"
"You might be surprised" The doors suddenly opened and a tall blonde guy walked in. He was carrying a sword; there was a girl about Yukari's age, behind him. She had a silvery color hair. That must be Allen Schezar and his sister. What a pretty boy! Van walked towards them and greeted them, and then he led them over to the group.
"Allen, this is Yukari. She's from the Mystic Moon and she knows Hitomi" Van said
Allen got on one knee took her hand and kissed it. What the hell does he think he's DOING?! "A pleasure to meet you Yukari"
"Yeah, you too" I guess
Allen stood up "So you know Hitomi? You know she came here about twelve moons ago. It's funny, whenever Gaea is on the brink of war a girl from the Mystic Moon comes" Yukari went pale, Van shot him a dirty look. "Oh did I say too much? Oops"
"Yeah you kinda did" Van angrily said, "I wasn't going to tell her because I didn't want her to go back. I thought she might be able to help like Hitomi but Hitomi only helped because the war broke out and she almost got killed."
"Oh no, no, no, no, no! I wished I were out of everyone's way so I could get out of the middle of a war. I can't be in the middle of another one." Yukari screeched
"What do you mean?" Celena finally asked
"My parents they would fight and fight it was like a war. Plates and lamps smashing, sneaking out of the house. I was like a hostage, but at school I wouldn't show that anything was going wrong at home. I was always smiling but it was fake" Yukari answered
"How terrible" Celena exclaimed
"I need something to drink or eat" Yukari said
"I'm coming with you!" Merle said
"Me too!" Celena piped up. When all three of them were out of earshot Van turned to Allen.
"Good job Allen. The first five minutes you're here you traumatize someone" Van said
"Well so-rry! Usually you don't get that reaction from just mentioning war" Allen scoffed "Can't she go back and get Hitomi?"
"I don't think she knows how" Van then changed the subject
A/N: Hope that's long enough. I'm going to try to make the chapters longer like this one but as I said postings will be less frequent. R&R!