I'm sorry about the first chapter looking so stuffed up… I didn't preview before I posted .… anyways… I have made it up to you reader by posting this early… so… yeah… anyways… enjoy!
=^.^=: Marina doesn't own Escaflowne, if she did she would be on a date with Dilandau… and she does own Saph and herself… enjoy!
Chapter 2
Going Along with Madness
My eyes flickered open, I yawned and rubbed my eyes, 'What a strange dream…' I thought, I looked around, this wasn't the cellar back home… I was on a sort of, woolly…yak?
"So, you're finally awake, good…" a familiar, but unknown voice said, I turned to the direction of the voice, it was the dragon slaying boy. "
Who…" I paused a second, stopping myself from slipping, I must not slip, not in front of an unknown, an unknown with great blade wielding skills… "Are you?" I asked, he looked proudly, and straight into my eyes,
"I am Van Fanel, soon to be crowned king of all Fanelia …" he paused, waiting for some reaction from me, when none came, his eyes flickered, I could tell it was confusion, and wonder, "And you are…?" he asked,
"Marina, Marina Aurora Mayazaki," I offered my hand to him, he stared at my arm, I raised an eye brow, than blushed, as I noticed all the wounds along my arms were showing, and on my legs…
"When we get to Fanelia, I'll have some of the finest doctors on Gaea fix your wounds." He smiled, I flinched, no one had ever smiled at me before, what was he up to? He looked at me, puzzled by my reactions, "You must have had an incredibly difficult battle to have won even with those wounds…" he said, with a slight hint of awe in his voice, this was insane, this guy was unreal! How could he bare to be so nice to me?
"VAN!!!" A blur of tiger skin, lavender brown, pink, pounced on Van, as he got off this, creature. I followed suite and jumped down. It was, a…'no must be going mad now'…a…a cat girl!
"Hey Merle…" Van gasped, the cat girl seemed to be holding him too tight, she had pink hair, a yellow tiger skin dress, lined at the edges with white fur, her lavender brown ears stuck out of her head, she had a long lavender brown tail that had black stripes here and there, around her wrists she had white fur, sort of like bracelets, but surely they could not be bracelets, she seemed to have a thin fur coat, it was lavender brown, she had bright blue eyes, when she saw me, her hairs bristled up,
"Who's this Van?" she eyed me suspiciously, I blushed madly and looked away,
"Oh, that's just…a girl I brought back with me, no one important…" he looked away from me, as if to say, 'she's just some girl who I don't know at all, I don't care if she lives or not' figures, he doesn't want to be a friend, I sighed and sank to the floor, gee…I felt dizzy…I put my hand to my head. Merle and Van ignored me, an armoured man came up to Van,
"Van, sir, do you have the Dragon Energyst?" he bowed and looked down into Van's eyes,
"Yes, I am sure you recognise this as the Dragon Energyst…" Van held the Energyst high, the light from the sun shone through the pink gem, the pink light shone down onto the man, he looked at the gem in awe,
"Van…You did it, now reawaken Escaflowne, as soon as possible…"
Than, it came suddenly, the familiar darkness, the visions always began like this, I saw two armoured men, ignoring me, getting killed by...by something I could not see…an invisible force, I could hear the laughter of someone, and felt sharp pain, as I felt a blade spear right through me,
"Wake up…Marina…Wake up…" a voice pulled me away from the scene,
I gasped, my eyes suddenly snapped open. Van was shaking my shoulders; I was in a soft, bed!?
"Wha!?" I jolted up, and shuffled back from Van, than came back, and stopped myself from hitting him in the face, "What happened?" I put my hand to my head, "All I remember is two men being attacked by, by that invisible thing…" Van's eyes showed confusion,
"Well, the only thing that happened was you screaming, and fainting. You must have hallucinated, probably from the loss of blood…I'll have to fix your wounds, the doctors won't come near you, they believe in the curse of the Mystic Moon." He must have noticed my expression of utter confusion. "You are on Gaea, the Mystic Moon is orbiting Gaea, you are from the Mystic Moon, and you accidentally got transported with me here to Gaea." He explained,
"Okay…" I blinked; I thought it would be best to go along with my own madness, what harm, could it do? Van took hold of my arm, in his hand he held a scalpel, his pointed it towards my flesh, I looked away,
"Damn…what did I do this time?" I said, my teeth clenched,
"Huh?" I felt his eyes on my face, I opened my eyes, I saw his fingers wrapped over the scalpel, the blade, it had speck of my blood on it, he was punishing me, wasn't he?
"What is this punishment for?" I asked, in a slight whisper,
"Punish…" his eyes flickered in understanding, "Some one punished you with wounds…Didn't they?" his grip on my arm tightened, I nodded, than, my gut feeling went on total red alert, I pushed Van onto the floor and flipped back as where we had just been was totally annihilated by the invisible enemies. My eyes flickered around for a weapon, anything… I saw it, a sword, nothing very special, but what I needed… I dove to the sword, and rolled for a second, and jumped up into an attack position. The sword was in my hand, it was natural for me. Van pulled his own sword out, 'Left…' I jumped up and slashed down to the left, just behind Van, he turned and gasped as I cut through silver tendrils,
"Quick! Let's go!" I yelled, I ran out of the room, ready to attack anything at any moment.
"Left! We must go left!" Van yelled, I nodded and ran to the left corridor,
"Van!" a deep voice said, another armoured man came up,
"Bagaldis! What's happening?" Van pushed in front of me, as if I wasn't there, what did he think of me? Only a second ago he was kind to me…
"Van…the castle is being attack by, by…well…what we are being attacked by, we are unsure, but all the people think the mystic moon girl is the cause! If the people see her, she will surely be killed!" Van's eyes flickered to a look of total despair, to total indifference. "You must go and resurrect Escaflowne, than, run, run far away…and do not return!" Bagaldis's eyes flamed, "Go quickly, I'll stop any evil from following you to the shrine…" Van bit his lip, he gripped my arm, and pulled me away down the corridor and into a room, in the middle a large stone with a scroll on it hang seemingly in mid air. Van pulled the Energyst from out of no where, he spoke in a strange, indescribable language than held the Energyst in the air, some how his blood mingled over the gem, flowing through the grooves, and dripping on the floor, the stone crack and a mobile suit sort of thing with a cape and sword landed kneeling on the floor, it was old and rusted, nothing special. Van ran to it quickly and put the Energyst into an area of pink jelly like stuff, the mobile suit seemed to come to life, from the pink jelly area of it, a strange glow slowly spread, the rust disappeared, and it looked as good as new, a heart beat came from the suit as if it were alive... The helmet area opened and Van jumped into the seat, the helmet closed, I have no idea what happened in the mobile suit. The suit got up and the hand if it lowered to a jumpable height, I leapt up and landed in the palm of the hand, the suit began to move, he walked out the gigantic doors on the other side of the shrine,
"Where are we going?" I asked,
"I have to save…Fanelia…" his eyes must have popped out of his head, when he saw the ruins, nothing was left except the shrine, I heard choking sounds from within the suit, than, red alert gut feeling,
"VAN! To your Right!!" I yelled, he didn't listen, I saw the tendrils, they reached out, just about to touch us,
"VAN! Don't you know you won't save your HOME by letting yourself die!" suddenly my pendant glowed, the vaguely familiar blue light enveloped us again, and we were gone.