Welcome to the incredibly vague prologue of the continuation to ESCAFLOWNE!!! I need to say that I positively love this plotline in store for the story. Very interesting, very, very interesting. I hope you enjoy it too!
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne, I don't! I have rights to Van though…KIDDING! Or am I?
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Please somebody wake me up!
"…waking up…."
No, I don't want to sleep anymore…
"put…under…"
Not again, not again…
"C'mon, breathe in, breathe out…"
No…
"…be sleeping in a few."
I'm tired of sleeping…
"Alright, it's safe."
No…can't…..
"Good."
I hate it…
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Hitomi…
Yet again Hitomi felt consciousness return to her, annoyingly painful headache intact and blurry vision. She felt the scent of apple blossoms and the comfort of soft sheets against her body.
I'm in my room!
The realization came upon her like a slap in the face. This wasn't possible, she was in the familiar pillar of light being taken home. She had left Van, she couldn't have lost consciousness, it wasn't possible…
"Hitomi…"
She knew that voice, the gentle, melodic voice of her mother. Sure enough when she turned her head to the side there was her mother. Lengthy tree bark brown strands disheveled and amber eyes surrounded by a tint of red from bloodshot eyes. Her mother had not slept for quite some time and Hitomi could understand why. She herself felt as though she had overslept, her limbs had become as heavy as her eyelids were. She couldn't comprehend what was going on, why had she been sleeping!? Even the effort of moving her mouth had become a task.
"M-mom?" a single syllable word was almost impossible for her to utter.
She found her mom's eyes shine with tears, wrapping her arms around her oldest child, "Hitomi…my baby, my baby…oh gods I thought your were gone…"
"Mom!?" she found it became gradually easier to speak, "Mom, what's wrong?"
She couldn't get a straight answer from the woman. For her mother could do nothing more than hold Hitomi in her warm arms, shivering and crying incessantly. This was confusion Hitomi had never felt before…did she pass out when she reached Earth? That could've been the answer…
Helpless Hitomi, I swear that should be my nickname…her mind whistled.
"Mom, I'm fine," she continued to assure her mother, but it seemed to be in vain, "Please Mom, I'm okay, just tell me what's going on?"
She could feel her mother's hold on her tighten and then slacken. The warm motherly arms once wrapped around her now unraveled only to cup Hitomi's hands tightly. The young high school girl found her own emerald eyes locked on to her mother's tear stained face. She didn't know if she could handle her mother's look of devastation, horror, and questioning. Did her own mother think her insane? She was afraid to say anything, to speak her mind because she was so afraid that she'd lose everything.
"Hitomi? Dear, you've been asleep," her mother sobbed.
Well that most likely ruled out the idea that she returned home conscious.
"You went out to the track late at night, remember?"
How could she forget, the first time it had been the appearance of the dragon. Van's trial of kingship, and when she had been first taken to Gaea. The second time she was forced to relive the same day to only be whisked away once again by Van and she found her true love…him. Yet here she had returned only to find that time flowed once again but she hadn't disappeared in the eyes of the people who had seen her disappear…
"You passed out…"
No I didn't!
"…frightened me to death…"
But I was in Gaea…
She brought her hand up to her chest feeling the beating of heart quicken under the confusion of this situation. At that moment, she felt something that shouldn't have been there. While her mother continued her ranting she pulled the golden chain from underneath her shirt. To her horror, the very thing she dreaded was there…
"No…" she spoke in a choked whisper.
There in her palm was the rose colored stone, the very necklace she had given Van now rested in her hand. She couldn't grasp what was happening to her. There wasn't a single hint that she had even moved on her own when she was in Gaea. Her own consciousness was questioning whether or not Gaea, Van, Fanelia, Atlantis…whether or not they had existed.
How could it…
She couldn't understand, the soft downy feathers from his wings. They way he held her in his arms in order to defend her. His warmth, it had to be real. The smell of the fields, that was his smell…
None of that could have been just a dream, we found love…
And when those thoughts entered Hitomi Kanzaki's mind, she let the tears come for she couldn't understand anything that was going on.
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"Merle, what is it?"
"Hitomi woke up…"
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Did you all enjoy the vagueness of it? Please don't stop reading, there is more. Everyone remember things are not as they seem. I would love reviews because I'm not sure how the 2nd chapter will work out if you don't want to review it's ok! If you have suggestions it would be great to hear them.
Until then, goodbye.