~Hi everyone! Here's Chapter Three already. (YAY!) I'm so happy because I'm getting some good reviews from other people. (THANK YOU!) Oh yeah.one of my friends (Aluralas Silverstars) told me that my chapters were not in order, like chapter 2 would be the first one and chapter 1 would be the second one. Well I fixed that (I think). But if it's still like that, then *OoPs! * Sorry I guess I have to leave it like that. Remember this is my first time using Fanfiction.net, so I'm not a pro.. yet. *hehehe* Well any ways.ON WITH THE STORY! ^_^ ~



Authors Notes

:: Thinking ::

" Talking "

= Flashback =

~*~*New Scene*~*~

* Actions *

(A few words from me)

HERE WE GO!!! (o^_^o)

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*A Whole New World*

Chapter Three: The Unknown Fighter



As the girls were looking up in the sky, they were still surprise that they were on Gaea, no in Escaflowne.

"Maricel! This is ALL your fault!" Lily yelled looking at her.

"Wait a minute. How is it that it's all MY fault?" Maricel asked her with an angry glare.

"Well.you're the one that wished to go here."

"Hey! You also wish to go here TOO LILY!" Maricel yelled. Lily was thinking about it.

"Oh yeah, huh?" Lily smiled. (No duh) Maricel shook her head. "But it was your necklace, that started to go all CRAZY with the FREAKING light show." Maricel looked at her.

"Yeah. It started to glow with sky blue and white lights." Maricel said thinking about it. Then Lily popped up an ideal how they got there.

"Maricel? Do you remember what you told me about the women who your dad bought the necklace from?" Lily asked.

"Yeah."

"What if the lady was telling the truth? That the necklace REALLY does grant wishes." Lily said looking at the necklace. Maricel's eyes went wide.

"You might be right." Maricel said kind of excited. " We did wish that we were in Escaflowne and here we are on Gaea. So if we wished to be here.."

"Then we can wish to go back home." Lily said finishing her sentence.

"Alright! Lets try it." Maricel said as she was taking off the necklace and holding it, in both of her hands.

"Good! Cause my mom is going to FREAK if I'm gone for a long time." Lily said as she was putting both of her hands around Maricel's.

"Ok, start wishing." Maricel said closing her eyes.

"Kay." Lily said as she did the same thing. Both girls started to wish to go back home.

::"I wish I was home in my room. I wish I was with my mom and papa. I wish I was watching my BIG screen TV right now." :: Maricel wished.

:: There's no place like home. There's no place like home.:: Lily wished over and over. It's been 5 minutes since they started wishing. Nothing happened.

"DAMN IT! Its not working!" Maricel yelled opening her eyes.

"Shit! Now what? Lily asked opening her eyes and taking her hands off of Maricel's.

"Well the only thing to do is." Maricel turned and face the forest. " Is to find someone for help." Lily looked at her knowing what she meant.

"Hells no! I'm not going into a dark forest MARICEL!" Lily yelled.

"Hey it's the only way out of here and its day time. It won't be that dark." Maricel said as she started putting on her necklace and walking towards the forest. "And don't worry. Remember I know Martial Arts and Kickboxing, so I'll protect you Lily." Maricel said turning her head to look at her. Lily blushed a little.

"Ok." Lily smiled. Lily started to run to catch up with Maricel, and then. "AHHHHH!!!.. *Oof*" Suddenly Lily tripped over, hitting head first into the ground. " OWWWW!!!" Maricel just shook her head and started to walk back to Lily to help her up.

"You're such a ditz Lily." Maricel laughed. Lily just gave her a death glare.

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The Escaflowne Gang

"Alright man! Gather around." Allen ordered as his Crusade Crew came gathering around him. "Last night Lady Hitomi and Lord Van saw this sky blue and white light ball fallen into the forest. Now we are going to investigate this today." Allen said as Van, Hitomi, and Merle came walking towards him.

"Allen we wish to help in this investigation too." Hitomi said looking at him. Allen looked at her.

"Are you sure? For all we know it might belong to the Zaibach or a trap." Allen said kind of worry. "I think you, Van, and Merle should stay here where it's safe." Hitomi gave out a sad pout.

"Ahhh.Come on Allen. Let them help you." Came a voice behind them. They turned around to see the owner of the voice. The owner was a man with fiery red spiky hair and gold color eyes. He was about 6'1" and he was wearing a green shirt and black pants. And on his left side of his waist was a sword. He was very handsome just like Allen. The man's name was Max Hunter.

"But Max what if something bad happ. . . "

"Allen you worry to much, you know." Max interrupted him. "And anyways Lord Van will be with them, so there's nothing to worry about ok?" Max said as he walked up to Allen and putting his right hand on Allen's Left shoulder. Allen looked at him for a while and then smiled.

"I guess your right." Allen said. Then Max took his hand off of Allen and turned to Van.

"And also knowing that Lord Van can fight well. I just know he can protect the two girls. Isn't that right. . . Lord Van?" Max said looking down at the young king. Van looked at him with an angry glare and then turned his head towards the right, he didn't want to look at him. Van didn't answer him. Max just smiled and then turned around and started walking towards his castle.

"Good luck on your mission." Max said, waving his hand. When he was gone, Allen started to slit up his man into groups and giving them directions which part of the forest they should look in.

"Ok, Van, Hitomi, and Merle you shall go in the west-north of the forest." Allen ordered. The three kids nodded. "Alright, lets get started!

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3 Hours Later In The Forest

"Maricel. . .we been walking forever now. Can we take a break?" Lily wined as she was looking tired.

"Lily it's only been about three hours." Maricel said looking back at Lily. "But alright. We can rest here." Maricel said as she sat down on the grassy ground.

"Thank you!" Lily said happily as she fell on the floor. Maricel smiled at her and then took off her bag and begin to look what she had inside. In her bag there was some clothes, her P.E. outfit, a hairbrush, and other stuff. Then Maricel pulled out a bottle of water. Maricel opened it and took some gulps.

"Lily here." Maricel said as she tosses the bottle of water towards her. Lily was looking down not knowing what was coming.

"Huh?" Lily said looking up. The bottle hit her in the face and then Lily fell on the ground on her back. " Ooowww!" Maricel crawled to her to see if she was alright.

"Lily? Are you ok?"

"Yeah." Lily said getting up and rubbing her face. "Man! This is the second time you throw something at me and it always ends up hitting me in the face. Maricel you got to stop throwing things at me, Girl." Maricel started to laugh.

"Yeah, maybe your right." Then Maricel wrapped her arms around her. "I'm sorry Lily I promise I won't throw anything hard at you." Maricel smiled as she gave Lily a warm hug. Lily smiled and hugged her back.

"Good." Lily said happily. When the hug was over, Lily took the bottle of water and started to drink it. Maricel sat across her, looking at her surroundings. Inside the forest, it wasn't that dark. The light of the sun came through the trees shinning on the two girls. And it was quite. . . too quite in fact. Then Maricel started to get a bad feeling. Lily felt this and she started to worry.

"Maricel what's wrong." Lily asked

"I don't know. I just got this bad feeling." Maricel answered looking at her. Then suddenly. . .

"AAAHHHHHH!!!"

Maricel and Lily froze when they heard someone screamed, deep in the forest. Lily got so scared that she crawled to Maricel and wrapped her arms around her stomach. . . tight.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Lily asked as she started to freak out.

"I don't know. . . *gasp*. . . Lily can you let go. *gasp* I can't breath." Maricel said as her face was kind of blue. Lily looked up to her.

"Oh *sweat drop* Sorry" Lily said as she let her go. Maricel sighed.

"SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!" Another scream come out deep in the forest. Lily got scared again and started to hug Maricel. But this time it wasn't that tight.

"OH MY GOD!!! THERE IT IS AGAIN!" Lily yelled as she started to tremble in fear.

"Lily its ok. Remember I'll protect you." Maricel said as she wrapped her arms around her, to stop her from shaking. Lily looked up and started to blush a little. Maricel gave her a smile and then started to get up. She was looking at the direction where the scream came from. Lily looked up at her, she was confuse.

"Eh. . . Maricel what are you doing?" Lily asked as she was still sitting on the ground.

"Stay here. I'm going to find out what the hell was that." Maricel ordered.

" WHAT?! HAVE YOU GONE MAD?!" Lily yelled as she stood up." AND LIKE HELL I'M GOING TO STAY HERE ALONE! I'm going you, Maricel."

"Fine, but lets hurry." Maricel said as she put her packback on and started to run towards the direction the scream.

"Hey, wait up!" Lily yelled as she started to run after her.

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Deep Inside The Forest

In this part of the forest, it was kind of dark and cold. In the air you can smell fear and death. There in a middle of an opening stood six people. Five were man and one was a teenage girl. The girl was backing up from the guys. In her green eyes there was fear. The girl stopped for she couldn't back up any more cause there was a tree behind her.

"STAT AWAY FROM ME!!!" The girl yelled out in fear as tears started to fall from her eyes.

"Poor, poor little girl. All alone I the forest." Said a men with black hair and red eyes. This man was old looking, his clothes were dirty, and his breath was stinking. (ewww. . . this guy must be butt-ugly.) " What do you think we should do men." He asked looking back at his friends. The four men started to laugh and grin, cause they knew what they wanted to do to her. One man on the left had green hair and black eyes. His name was Tin. Next to him was a man with blue hair and green eyes. This guy was known as Duff. The third man had gray hair and brown eyes. His name was Net. The last man had brown hair and black eyes. Ben was his name. Duff walked up to the men who asked the question.

"I have an ideal what we can do to the girl Boss." Duff said looking at the young girl.

"Oh really? Why don't you tell us Duff." The Boss asked him.

"Well, we can sell her as a slave. I bet we get lots of money." He grins. "But after we're done with her." Duff said licking his lips. The Boss smiled, then all the guys started to get closer towards the girl. The girl was even more scared than before. The she closed her eyes.

:: "How the hell did I get my self into this? :: The girl thought as she started to think back before this happened.

= The girl was walking in the forest with two of her friends. The girl was deep in thought.

"Hitomi! You better hurry up before you get lost!" Van yelled.

"Oh sorry." Hitomi said as she saw how far she was behind from her friends. She ran to catch up with then. Merle who was walking next to Van, looked at Hitomi.

"Hitomi what were you doing." Merle asked.

"Oh nothing really, I was just thinking about that sky blue and white light ball thingy." Hitomi replied. Van looked at her for a minute, then looked forward again. Hitomi sighed and started to look around. It was such a beautiful day. The sun was out and the birds were singing. Then Hitomi saw something of the corner of her eyes. Hitomi started to walk slowing and then stop. She turned her head and saw this small baby bird on the floor. It was crying. Hitomi walked towards the baby bird slowing and kneeled down.

"Poor little bird. You must of fell from your nest." Hitomi said as she started to look up to the tree that was next to her. Then she found the nest and it wasn't that high. So Hitomi picked up the bird with both of her hands and place it into the nest.

"There you go." Hitomi smiled. "Isn't it a cute little bird Van?" Hitomi asked as she turns to see Van and Merle. But she didn't. "Van?. . . Merle? OH NO!" Hitomi yelled as she started to ran towards the direction where she last saw her friends were walking. Hitomi has been running for 5 minutes now and then she stop the catch her breath. Then she noticed it had gotten cold and gloomy. The forest was kind of dark and Hitomi started to get scared. Then she started to walk. As Hitomi was walking she felt like someone was watching her, so she started to walk faster. Then she heard some voices and this made Hitomi more scared and she started to run again. Hitomi didn't know where she was going, she just ran. Then she ended up in a opening in the forest. Hitomi walked to the middle of the opening and then she heard something behind her. Hitomi turned around and saw five guys glaring at her.

"Hehehe. . . What a pretty young girl you are." Said a man with black hair and red eyes. Then the man started to walk towards her. Hitomi started to back up when the man was getting closer to her.

"AAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Hitomi screamed. =

Hitomi opened her eyes. Now the Man known as Boss was only one foot away from her. Then the Boss took out a knife and it up against Hitomi's neck. Hitomi wanted to scream but she couldn't. She just looked at the guy who was in front of her.

"Lets have some fun with her." The Boss said as he was glaring at her. Then something caught his eyes. Around the girl's neck was a small pendant and the Boss smiled. He grabbed the pendant pulled it off the girl's neck. The Boss held it in front of his face, the pendant's chain was broken.

"No please. Give it back to me." Hitomi said as she tried to reach out for it, but the Boss pulled it away from her.

"Hehehe. . . I think this little pendant will be enough to get me some beer." The Boss smiled. Then he turned his attention back to the girl. Hitomi closed her eyes and bit her lower lip, not knowing what was going to happen next.

:: "Please. . . someone help me." :: Hitomi prayed.

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Maricel and Lily

Maricel and Lily were still running in the direction where the scream came from.

"Maricel, are you sure about this?" Lily asked, running a little bit behind of Maricel. "It might be a fake scream or something.

"I don't think so." Maricel said looking back at her. "This scream was really real and I have a bad feeling about this."

"Oh Maricel. . ." Lily said kind of worry. A minute later Maricel suddenly stopped in her tracks. Lily didn't see that Maricel stopped and then..*BOOM!* Lily ran into Maricel and end up falling on her butt hard.

"OUCH! MARICEL?!" Lily yelled as she looked at her. Maricel didn't look at her. She was staring at the direction in front of her. "Maricel?" Lily called out her name.

"Shhh. . . I hear voices." Maricel said, not looking at Lily.

"Huh?" Lily asked as she was getting up and rubbing her butt.

"Lily be quite and follow me." Maricel said as she started to walk slowly. Lily nodded and followed her. Then they both heard people talking. Maricel and lily ducked behind a bush. Maricel lifted her head to see what was happening. There she saw five guys surrounding a young girl. The girl seems to be around her age, she had sandy blonde hair and she was wearing a school uniform. Maricel looked closer and then she gasped.

" Oh my God." Maricel whispered. Lily looked at her. "What? What did you see?" Lily asked her.

"Lily do you know who's that girl?"

"Huh?" Lily lifted head and saw a teenage girl. "Nope." Lily said looking at Maricel.

"LILY! *sweat drop* That Hitomi Kanzaki. (no duhh)"

"Oh really?" Lily asked as she took another look. "Hey it is Hitomi Kanzaki. Oh wells. . ." Lily said as she started to crawl away. Then Maricel stopped her.

"What do you think you're doing Lily?" Maricel asked.

"Eh. . . what does it look like? I'm leaving."

"WHAT? WHY?!"

"Duhh. . . Remember Maricel? I don't like or care for Hitomi.

"LILY! YOU'RE SO EVIL! We have to help her." Maricel said angrily.

"But I don't want to." Lily pouted.

"Oh really. But if is was Allen then you would want to huh?" Maricel asked.

"HELLS YEAH!" Lily said with a big smile.

"Whatever." Maricel said as she rolled her eyes.

"No please. Give it back to me." Maricel and Lily looked to see what was happening this time. A man with black hair grabbed Hitomi's pendant.

"Hey that guy is trying to steal her pendant. That Asshole." Maricel said in anger.

"Well I say that we get out butts out of here, before they find us. Come on Maricel." Lily said as she was about to leave. But Lily didn't hear Maricel's reply. "Maricel?" Lily looked back, but saw no Maricel. "Maricel?" Lily called out her name looking left and right. Then suddenly. . .

"GET YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF OF HER!" Lily looked to see who was that.

"OH MY GOD!. . . MARICEL!" Lily yelled as she saw her friend standing behind the group of men.

The five guys turned around to see the owner of that voice. They saw a girl with long black hair down to her knees and she was wearing a black jacket and a skirt. Then the men were surprise cause the girl in front of them was so beautiful. They started to drool. The girl was standing there with her right hand on her hip and she looked very pissed off.

"I said get your damn hands off of her." Maricel repeated. Then Tin, who was closer to her started to walk towards her.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Tin asked with a grin. "Another young girl in the forest, but this one is very beautiful." Tin said as he grabbed Maricel's arm. Maricel looked at him and punched him in the face. Tin fell backwards with both of his hands on his face. Tin was in pain. The other four guys were silence; they were very shock to see this girl punched their friend hard. Hitomi who saw all this was also shock.

:: "Who's that girl?" :: Hitomi thought.

"Get her!" Ordered their Boss. The rest of the guys started running at Maricel. Maricel just stood there with no emotion on her face. When the three guys came close to her Maricel grabbed one of them by the arm and throw him over her shoulder. The next guy that came close to her, Maricel went down a tripped him with her right leg. When Maricel got up and she saw that the last guy was coming towards her fast. Maricel took a step back and then kicked him hard into a tree. While all this was happening Lily jumped out of the bushes and started to cheer for Maricel.

"GO MARICEL GO!!! KICK THEIR ASSES! YOU GO GIRL!!!" Lily yelled as she was acting like a cheerleader and waving pompoms.

All the men were down and knocked out. Then Maricel turned her attention towards the man who was standing behind Hitomi with a knife against her neck. Maricel looked into the guy's eye, and she knew that he was scared. This made Maricel smiled evilly.

" Pathetic! You hide behind a woman! And you call your self a man!" Maricel yelled at him. Maricel was about to kick his ass, but then the man throws Hitomi into a tree and then ran for his life. " YOU COWARD!!!" Maricel yelled as she was about to chase after him, but she didn't. Hitomi leans against the tree looking at the girl who just beat up four guys. Hitomi was frighten of the girl. Maricel saw this and she didn't want Hitomi to be scared of her, so she walked towards her slowly. When she was close to her, Maricel kneeled down.

"Don't be scared. I won't hurt you Hitomi." Maricel smiled at her. Hitomi looked at her shocked.

"How do you know my name?" Hitomi asked.

"Oh. Let's just say that I been watching over you. Kind of like an guardian angel." Maricel smiled at her again. When Maricel said that Hitomi relax and looked at the young girl.

::"Oh my. . . She so beautiful." :: Hitomi thought as she started to blush a little. :: "Maybe she's really an angel.":: Maricel saw that Hitomi's cheeks were turning red.

"Hitomi do you have a fever? Your cheeks are turning red?" Maricel asked as she place her right hand on Hitomi's forehand." Mmm. . . Nope, you're not hot."

"Eh. Its nothing." Hitomi said as Maricel took her hand off of her. "Its just that I was." Then tears started falling down from her eyes." I was so scared. I thought I was gonna die." Hitomi said as more tears fell down. Maricel looked at her with sympathy, she didn't want the young girl to cry. So Maricel wrapped her arms around her.

"Shhh. . . It's ok. It's all over now. You don't have to be afraid any more." Maricel whispered. Hitomi was shock at the girl who just wrapped her arms around her. But Hitomi just sighed and hugged her back. She felt so warm and safe in her arms. Then Hitomi realized something and she pull away from Maricel's hug.

"Oh No! That guy still has my pendant." Hitomi said, as she was about to cry again.

"Don't worry I'll get it back for you." Maricel smiled.

"You will?"

"Yep. That's a promise Hitomi." Hitomi was so happy that she jumped onto Maricel and gave her a big hug.

"Oh Thank You!"

"Hehehe. . . Your welcome." Maricel said and then suddenly a scream came out. Maricel and Hitomi turned around to see where the scream came from. When Maricel saw who was it she gasped.

"OH SHIT! LILY!" Maricel yelled when she saw a man with a knife against her neck and four other guys that were standing next to her. They were that same guys that tried to hurt Hitomi. "LET HER GO YOU JACKASS!"

"If you want her. Come and take her." The Boss said as he lifted Lily onto his shoulder and started to run deep into the forest. The other guys follow him.

"MARICEL! HELP MEEEEE!!!" Lily yelled out to Maricel. Maricel was about to run after them, but then she looked at Hitomi.

"Hitomi I want you to stay here. I promise that I will come back for you ok?" Maricel said holding Hitomi's hand. Hitomi looked at her and nodded. "Ok, don't move." Maricel said before she ran off to save her best friend.

"WAIT! I DIDN'T GET YOUR NAME!" Hitomi yelled out, but there was no answer. Maricel was long gone. Hitomi sat there looking at the direction where the young girl just disappeared.

"Who was that?" Hitomi whispered. Then suddenly something came out of the bushes.

"Hitomi?"

-End Of Chapter Three-

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ~Well there you have it, Chapter Three. I know its kind of confusing or weird. I'm just not too good doing fighting scenes. *hehehe* But I'll do better next time. Well I'll be writing chapter four soon, so just layback, relax, and enjoy the ride. BYE! (o^_^o) ~