Wanna Switch With Me, Hitomi?
By: Escachick357
Ch.8- Day 3, Kristina and the Zaibach Sorcerers
Disclaimer- I don't own Escaflowne, and if I did...Van would be mine.
A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for a while. My sister had a friend over for 3 weeks and since my last update, none of them would leave me alone. Oh well. Ummm...R/R please.
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The sun rose in the sky as everyone on Gaea, well almost everyone, opened their eyes and smiled. As usual, the servants in Van's castle were the first to awaken. They all went to the kitchens to get breakfast ready. Merle and Celena were the next to wake up and help the servants with breakfast. Millerna woke up next, but instead of helping, she wore her best clothes and sat at the table waiting for breakfast.
Dryden, who honestly didn't care about the clothes he wore, sat at the table a good distance away from Millerna. Next up was Gaddes, who was also staying at the castle. He sat at the table in silence, wondering where Allen was. Kristina, for the first time on Gaea (even though she was only there for 3 days), woke up by herself and walked to an empty seat. All that was left to awaken was Van and Allen.
The sun rose on the faces of both Van and Allen. Both of them woke up, got out of bed, and got dressed, but only one of them went to the table to eat. This was Van. As Van walked into the dining room, he noticed that Kristina's face had a huge smile on it and her now-blue eyes were sparkling. It made him smile, too. "Ohayo Gozaimasu, Van." Kristina said.
Van, still smiling, walked to the table and sat in the chair next to her. Looking at her, he said, "Ohayo Gozaimasu, Kristina." "Oh my God! You're actually up early!" Merle yelled. "Shut up." Kristina muttered. "Hey, where's Allen? Isn't he up yet?" Millerna asked cluelessly. "Probably not." Dryden answered. After his sentence, Dryden heard some footsteps walking into the room.
Looking up, everybody saw Allen dressed in his usual clothes, but this time he had a mask that was normally used at a ball. His mask covered his forehead and down to the top of his lips. There were holes on his eyes so he could see and a few holes on his nostrils so he could breathe, but nothing else. Allen sat in a chair and said nothing. Everyone stared at him in silence until Merle finally yelled, "Allen, take off that stupid mask!" "No!" Allen yelled. Van sighed, "Allen, take off that damn mask." "Fine!" Allen yelled.
Allen took off his mask and revealed his face. His nose was still large, but instead of it being red like it was before, it was a purple color. He also gave an evil death-glare towards Kristina. She then gave him the "ha ha, your ugly ass was whooped by a girl" look. Everyone at the table forced themselves not to laugh, although it was very hard.
Once everyone finished their feast of a breakfast, Kristina went to Merle's room with Merle and Celena and got to laugh her ass off. Once they all finished laughing (which was about 20 min. later) Merle turned to Kristina and asked, "Did you get your dress for the ball yet?" "What ball?" Kristina asked. "The ball at the castle in 3 days, duh!" Merle yelled.
"Wait, I have to wear a dress?"
"Uh...yeah."
"I'm not going."
"Yes you are, Kristina. You already promised."
"Dammit! Fine! But I don't have a dress."
"That's okay, we can go shopping in the market." Celena piped up. "Okay." Kristina answered.
The 3 girls started walking to the entrance of the castle (after grabbing money that equaled 2 million dollars on the Mystic Moon). Before they could open the door to the castle, Millerna ran up to them. "Are you girls going to the market?" She asked. The girls nodded. "Great! I'll come with you!" Millerna cried out in joy. The four girls left for the market.
The market was crowded. There were many different booths selling clothing, food, and other items. This market looked exactly like the Pike Place Market on the Mystic Moon (A/N: if you don't know where the Pike Place Market is, it's in Seattle, Washington. I've been there a few times, and it's VERY crowded. Last time I went, I had to hold my 10 year old sister's hand so she wouldn't get lost). The girls stopped at a booth that sold beautiful but expensive dresses. Merle picked out a long, yellow dress that looked like a dress of the upper class. Celena's dress was like Merle's, except hers was blue. Millerna, being a princess, already had her own dress. Kristina, who thought that all dresses were evil (A/N: I do think they're evil. Remember readers, STICK TO PANTS!!!), didn't find one she wanted.
Millerna picked up a long, pink dress, "How about this one?" "No, it's pink." Kristina answered. "Oh, come on." Millerna whined. "No way! I'm not wearing that!" Kristina yelled.
"Kristina, you're being unreasonable."
"No I'm not, Millerna."
"Why won't you wear it?"
"Because it's pink and hate the color pink. The only dress I wear has to be green and has no ruffles or any crap like that."
"Then why should you even wear a dress?"
"I won't. I'll wear my jeans."
"No you won't!" Merle screamed, "You'll wear a dress no matter what!" "Okay, okay. Fine!" Kristina yelled.
Celena grabbed a dress and asked, "How about this one?" Kristina stared at it and said, "This will do." The dress looked very similar to Merle and Celena's dresses, but it was a beautiful emerald green. It looked like it would go perfectly with the lovely gold and black colored pendant Kristina always wore. "You aren't wearing that pendant to the ball are you?" Millerna asked, pointing at Kristina's pendant.
"Of course! This is my good luck charm!" Kristina answered. "I heard you call it something. Lucky Pendant, right?" Celena asked. "Lucia's Pendant." Kristina answered. "Can I hold it?" Merle asked. Kristina hesitated, but realizing that Merle would be careful not to drop it, she handed the pendant to the cat-girl.
Merle loved holding the partially heavy gold and black colored pendant. It was round and had a gold border. There was a little gold circle at the bottom of the pendant. The inside was all black except for the final gold circle close to the top and was about 8 cm round. It looked very rare. Merle even noticed that there was writing on the back of it. "Working Designs. 2000." Merle read. "What does that mean?" Celena asked. "Working Designs were the people that made the pendant. 2000 was the year it was made, that was 3 years ago." Kristina answered.
Behind the 4 girls, 3 men stood whispering to each other. "So, boss. Do we kill the girl?" The shortest man asked. "No, Sherman. Just put her in captivity." The tallest man answered. "Can't we just curse her into being a mindless puppet so that Porkio here wouldn't be the stupidest here?" Sherman asked, pointing at the middle-sized man. "I guess that's fine." The boss answered. Almost immediately, Porkio ran up to the girls.
"So Kristina, who is Lucia?" Merle asked. "She first owned the pendant, but gave it away and I got it." Kristina explained. Merle started to hand Lucia's Pendant back to Kristina when a figure in black ran by and snatched the pendant out of Merle's hands. The figure was only 5 ft. away when it turned around, revealing itself to be Porkio.
Porkio held the pendant, pointed at Kristina, and began mumbling, "Isaki apam mehinam. Eto caffe nam!" A faint red light shone on both Kristina and Lucia's Pendant, but Kristina felt nothing. Porkio smirked and started to run away. "Oh no you don't!" Kristina screamed as she ran after Porkio. Porkio ran through the streets of Fanelia with Kristina right behind him.
"Give me back my pendant you baka yaro!" Kristina screamed as she finally grabbed Porkio's arm. Unfortunately, she was on a bridge over a fast river. Porkio smirked, held his free hand over the river, and dropped Lucia's Pendant. "No!" Kristina screamed as she saw her pendant disappear into the swift river. She screamed, "I'll kill you, you baka yaro!"
She began beating the crap out of Porkio. He was covered with many bruises until he was rescued by his 2 companions. Merle ran up and stared at the 3 men, "You!" "Don't worry. We'll get your precious Van-sama and kill him." The boss calmly said. Both him and Sherman picked up Porkio and ran to their hide-out.
Kristina's eyes filled with tears as she stared into the swift river. "I'm sorry, Kristina." Merle softly told her, "I didn't know that Porkio was going to take your pendant." "I'll...kill...him. I'll kill him and his companions for taking my pendant." Kristina screamed, fire rising in her blue eyes. Celena sighed, "Let's go home. The sunset's coming (yes they were gone that long) and Van's probably wondering where we are." The 3 remaining girls slowly nodded and walked back to the castle with their new dresses.
As they entered the castle, Porkio and his companions sat in their underground lair. "You what?!?" The boss screamed. "I put a curse on the king's girlfriend." Porkio answered. "What did you say?" Sherman asked. "Isaki apam mehinam. Eto caffe nam." Porkio said, "And the girl and her pendant glowed red." "Excellent! Now where's the pendant?" the boss asked anxiously. Porkio smiled, "I dropped it into the river so that the girl wouldn't get it."
The boss' face turned beet red as he yelled, "You idiot! Without that pendant, we can't control her!" "But wait, boss. Since the girl is cursed and without her pendant, she will suffer. And since it's in the river, the girl will forever suffer. And since the cat-girl saw us, Van will surely come and we can kill him." Sherman explained. The boss smiled, "You're right, Sherman. The girl will suffer and Van will surely come!" The 3 men laughed evilly.
Meanwhile, at the castle, Kristina was really bummed out. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks as she asked, "Who were those men?" "They are Zaibach Sorcerers. They have no melefs, but they cast very powerful curses on people and use very powerful magic spells," Merle answered, "Those 3 are the last ones left: Sherman, Porkio, and their boss, Ohgami."
Kristina's vision began to blur as she walked up to her room. Her vision was so bad that she had real problems seeing. The familiar voice came back, "Kristina, the stairs are 5 steps to your left." Kristina found the stairs and attempted to walk, but her legs felt like rubber. She was halfway up when she realized that she couldn't walk alone the rest of the way. The voice again came, "You can do it. You're getting so close to your room."
Kristina nodded and used the rest of her strength to walk up the stairs, find her room, open the door, take off her shoes, close her door, walk to her bed, and finally collapsed in it. Immediately, she was in a deep sleep. She was so tired that she didn't even hear or feel Van walking up to her sleeping body.
Van quietly picked up Kristina's body, pulled off the covers, put her back on the bed, and cover her back up. He stared at her sleeping body and smiled. He couldn't help it. "God, she looks like an angel especially when she's asleep. I better let her sleep." Van thought. He softly kissed her forehead (A/N: author faints) then left the room, unaware that the curse was just now starting.
End Chapter 8
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A/N: Well, that was it so far. The spell that Porkio(I wanted to pick an unusual and funny name) said was actually from the intermission from the anime "Magic User's Club". Also, the boss' name, Ohgami, is actually the name of the guy (which I REALLY hate) from Sakura Wars. The Lucia's Pendant is an actual pendant that I own. I got it for Christmas with my video game of LUNAR 2: Eternal Blue, if you want to see what Lucia's Pendant, go on some LUNAR 2 sites and look for picture of Lucia and you'll see what the pendant actually looks like. In my next chapter, Hitomi is going to go on her first date. R/R please but don't flame me. Oh, and here are some are translations from the Japanese words I used:
baka yaro = Stupid bastard
Ohayo Gozaimasu = Good morning
By: Escachick357
Ch.8- Day 3, Kristina and the Zaibach Sorcerers
Disclaimer- I don't own Escaflowne, and if I did...Van would be mine.
A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for a while. My sister had a friend over for 3 weeks and since my last update, none of them would leave me alone. Oh well. Ummm...R/R please.
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The sun rose in the sky as everyone on Gaea, well almost everyone, opened their eyes and smiled. As usual, the servants in Van's castle were the first to awaken. They all went to the kitchens to get breakfast ready. Merle and Celena were the next to wake up and help the servants with breakfast. Millerna woke up next, but instead of helping, she wore her best clothes and sat at the table waiting for breakfast.
Dryden, who honestly didn't care about the clothes he wore, sat at the table a good distance away from Millerna. Next up was Gaddes, who was also staying at the castle. He sat at the table in silence, wondering where Allen was. Kristina, for the first time on Gaea (even though she was only there for 3 days), woke up by herself and walked to an empty seat. All that was left to awaken was Van and Allen.
The sun rose on the faces of both Van and Allen. Both of them woke up, got out of bed, and got dressed, but only one of them went to the table to eat. This was Van. As Van walked into the dining room, he noticed that Kristina's face had a huge smile on it and her now-blue eyes were sparkling. It made him smile, too. "Ohayo Gozaimasu, Van." Kristina said.
Van, still smiling, walked to the table and sat in the chair next to her. Looking at her, he said, "Ohayo Gozaimasu, Kristina." "Oh my God! You're actually up early!" Merle yelled. "Shut up." Kristina muttered. "Hey, where's Allen? Isn't he up yet?" Millerna asked cluelessly. "Probably not." Dryden answered. After his sentence, Dryden heard some footsteps walking into the room.
Looking up, everybody saw Allen dressed in his usual clothes, but this time he had a mask that was normally used at a ball. His mask covered his forehead and down to the top of his lips. There were holes on his eyes so he could see and a few holes on his nostrils so he could breathe, but nothing else. Allen sat in a chair and said nothing. Everyone stared at him in silence until Merle finally yelled, "Allen, take off that stupid mask!" "No!" Allen yelled. Van sighed, "Allen, take off that damn mask." "Fine!" Allen yelled.
Allen took off his mask and revealed his face. His nose was still large, but instead of it being red like it was before, it was a purple color. He also gave an evil death-glare towards Kristina. She then gave him the "ha ha, your ugly ass was whooped by a girl" look. Everyone at the table forced themselves not to laugh, although it was very hard.
Once everyone finished their feast of a breakfast, Kristina went to Merle's room with Merle and Celena and got to laugh her ass off. Once they all finished laughing (which was about 20 min. later) Merle turned to Kristina and asked, "Did you get your dress for the ball yet?" "What ball?" Kristina asked. "The ball at the castle in 3 days, duh!" Merle yelled.
"Wait, I have to wear a dress?"
"Uh...yeah."
"I'm not going."
"Yes you are, Kristina. You already promised."
"Dammit! Fine! But I don't have a dress."
"That's okay, we can go shopping in the market." Celena piped up. "Okay." Kristina answered.
The 3 girls started walking to the entrance of the castle (after grabbing money that equaled 2 million dollars on the Mystic Moon). Before they could open the door to the castle, Millerna ran up to them. "Are you girls going to the market?" She asked. The girls nodded. "Great! I'll come with you!" Millerna cried out in joy. The four girls left for the market.
The market was crowded. There were many different booths selling clothing, food, and other items. This market looked exactly like the Pike Place Market on the Mystic Moon (A/N: if you don't know where the Pike Place Market is, it's in Seattle, Washington. I've been there a few times, and it's VERY crowded. Last time I went, I had to hold my 10 year old sister's hand so she wouldn't get lost). The girls stopped at a booth that sold beautiful but expensive dresses. Merle picked out a long, yellow dress that looked like a dress of the upper class. Celena's dress was like Merle's, except hers was blue. Millerna, being a princess, already had her own dress. Kristina, who thought that all dresses were evil (A/N: I do think they're evil. Remember readers, STICK TO PANTS!!!), didn't find one she wanted.
Millerna picked up a long, pink dress, "How about this one?" "No, it's pink." Kristina answered. "Oh, come on." Millerna whined. "No way! I'm not wearing that!" Kristina yelled.
"Kristina, you're being unreasonable."
"No I'm not, Millerna."
"Why won't you wear it?"
"Because it's pink and hate the color pink. The only dress I wear has to be green and has no ruffles or any crap like that."
"Then why should you even wear a dress?"
"I won't. I'll wear my jeans."
"No you won't!" Merle screamed, "You'll wear a dress no matter what!" "Okay, okay. Fine!" Kristina yelled.
Celena grabbed a dress and asked, "How about this one?" Kristina stared at it and said, "This will do." The dress looked very similar to Merle and Celena's dresses, but it was a beautiful emerald green. It looked like it would go perfectly with the lovely gold and black colored pendant Kristina always wore. "You aren't wearing that pendant to the ball are you?" Millerna asked, pointing at Kristina's pendant.
"Of course! This is my good luck charm!" Kristina answered. "I heard you call it something. Lucky Pendant, right?" Celena asked. "Lucia's Pendant." Kristina answered. "Can I hold it?" Merle asked. Kristina hesitated, but realizing that Merle would be careful not to drop it, she handed the pendant to the cat-girl.
Merle loved holding the partially heavy gold and black colored pendant. It was round and had a gold border. There was a little gold circle at the bottom of the pendant. The inside was all black except for the final gold circle close to the top and was about 8 cm round. It looked very rare. Merle even noticed that there was writing on the back of it. "Working Designs. 2000." Merle read. "What does that mean?" Celena asked. "Working Designs were the people that made the pendant. 2000 was the year it was made, that was 3 years ago." Kristina answered.
Behind the 4 girls, 3 men stood whispering to each other. "So, boss. Do we kill the girl?" The shortest man asked. "No, Sherman. Just put her in captivity." The tallest man answered. "Can't we just curse her into being a mindless puppet so that Porkio here wouldn't be the stupidest here?" Sherman asked, pointing at the middle-sized man. "I guess that's fine." The boss answered. Almost immediately, Porkio ran up to the girls.
"So Kristina, who is Lucia?" Merle asked. "She first owned the pendant, but gave it away and I got it." Kristina explained. Merle started to hand Lucia's Pendant back to Kristina when a figure in black ran by and snatched the pendant out of Merle's hands. The figure was only 5 ft. away when it turned around, revealing itself to be Porkio.
Porkio held the pendant, pointed at Kristina, and began mumbling, "Isaki apam mehinam. Eto caffe nam!" A faint red light shone on both Kristina and Lucia's Pendant, but Kristina felt nothing. Porkio smirked and started to run away. "Oh no you don't!" Kristina screamed as she ran after Porkio. Porkio ran through the streets of Fanelia with Kristina right behind him.
"Give me back my pendant you baka yaro!" Kristina screamed as she finally grabbed Porkio's arm. Unfortunately, she was on a bridge over a fast river. Porkio smirked, held his free hand over the river, and dropped Lucia's Pendant. "No!" Kristina screamed as she saw her pendant disappear into the swift river. She screamed, "I'll kill you, you baka yaro!"
She began beating the crap out of Porkio. He was covered with many bruises until he was rescued by his 2 companions. Merle ran up and stared at the 3 men, "You!" "Don't worry. We'll get your precious Van-sama and kill him." The boss calmly said. Both him and Sherman picked up Porkio and ran to their hide-out.
Kristina's eyes filled with tears as she stared into the swift river. "I'm sorry, Kristina." Merle softly told her, "I didn't know that Porkio was going to take your pendant." "I'll...kill...him. I'll kill him and his companions for taking my pendant." Kristina screamed, fire rising in her blue eyes. Celena sighed, "Let's go home. The sunset's coming (yes they were gone that long) and Van's probably wondering where we are." The 3 remaining girls slowly nodded and walked back to the castle with their new dresses.
As they entered the castle, Porkio and his companions sat in their underground lair. "You what?!?" The boss screamed. "I put a curse on the king's girlfriend." Porkio answered. "What did you say?" Sherman asked. "Isaki apam mehinam. Eto caffe nam." Porkio said, "And the girl and her pendant glowed red." "Excellent! Now where's the pendant?" the boss asked anxiously. Porkio smiled, "I dropped it into the river so that the girl wouldn't get it."
The boss' face turned beet red as he yelled, "You idiot! Without that pendant, we can't control her!" "But wait, boss. Since the girl is cursed and without her pendant, she will suffer. And since it's in the river, the girl will forever suffer. And since the cat-girl saw us, Van will surely come and we can kill him." Sherman explained. The boss smiled, "You're right, Sherman. The girl will suffer and Van will surely come!" The 3 men laughed evilly.
Meanwhile, at the castle, Kristina was really bummed out. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks as she asked, "Who were those men?" "They are Zaibach Sorcerers. They have no melefs, but they cast very powerful curses on people and use very powerful magic spells," Merle answered, "Those 3 are the last ones left: Sherman, Porkio, and their boss, Ohgami."
Kristina's vision began to blur as she walked up to her room. Her vision was so bad that she had real problems seeing. The familiar voice came back, "Kristina, the stairs are 5 steps to your left." Kristina found the stairs and attempted to walk, but her legs felt like rubber. She was halfway up when she realized that she couldn't walk alone the rest of the way. The voice again came, "You can do it. You're getting so close to your room."
Kristina nodded and used the rest of her strength to walk up the stairs, find her room, open the door, take off her shoes, close her door, walk to her bed, and finally collapsed in it. Immediately, she was in a deep sleep. She was so tired that she didn't even hear or feel Van walking up to her sleeping body.
Van quietly picked up Kristina's body, pulled off the covers, put her back on the bed, and cover her back up. He stared at her sleeping body and smiled. He couldn't help it. "God, she looks like an angel especially when she's asleep. I better let her sleep." Van thought. He softly kissed her forehead (A/N: author faints) then left the room, unaware that the curse was just now starting.
End Chapter 8
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A/N: Well, that was it so far. The spell that Porkio(I wanted to pick an unusual and funny name) said was actually from the intermission from the anime "Magic User's Club". Also, the boss' name, Ohgami, is actually the name of the guy (which I REALLY hate) from Sakura Wars. The Lucia's Pendant is an actual pendant that I own. I got it for Christmas with my video game of LUNAR 2: Eternal Blue, if you want to see what Lucia's Pendant, go on some LUNAR 2 sites and look for picture of Lucia and you'll see what the pendant actually looks like. In my next chapter, Hitomi is going to go on her first date. R/R please but don't flame me. Oh, and here are some are translations from the Japanese words I used:
baka yaro = Stupid bastard
Ohayo Gozaimasu = Good morning