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Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne, but I do own Marina and Saph.

Chapter 6

The vision of Blood

The blood was every where, it was in the sky, raining down from the stars, it was covering the corpses of many a man, one man, I do not know him, and yet… I… I do… looked to me, then, the arrows came, the pierced the man all over, he gasped, and fell to the floor, I ran over to him, he looked into my eyes, and said with his dieing breaths,

"Don't let…Zaibach…rule…" Then, I felt the cold steel pierce through my heart, I heard the cold laughter, like the laughter from the red Guymelef. I screamed, I had not screamed since I was three, I'm seventeen now, "You…are SO weak!!" my eyes snapped open, I growled,

"AH! OH HELP ME! NO! AH! SAVE ME!" Merle said mockingly, I bristled, and reached for the sword I had in the scabbard around my waist.

"Merle…what are you doing here?" I said through clenched teeth, 'Control, remember it, control,' '

"I was SAVED by VAN!!!" she said, swooning slightly, "He is SO brave!" she clasped her hands together,

"Amazing, I never knew he was so…" I was about to say stupid but knew better, "Brave…" I said, I added a slight hint of sarcasm,

"Well, I knew he was brave all along…" she sighed, a knock came from the door, "Who…who is it?" Merle asked, she asked it slightly weakly, she looked feverish now, come to think of it,

"Van…" the person from behind the door said,

"VAN!!!" Merle cheered,

"You can come in Van." I added, Merle glared at me, than looked sweetly over to Van as he entered, he walked over to Merle, he had a bowl of something,

"Give me your wrist please Merle," she obeyed, Van took off his glove, I decided to listen to them instead, I closed my eyes, I could hear the ship creaking, I could hear the slosh of liquid, the rubbing of liquid onto furry skin, I heard the slight rustle of hair, I opened my eyes, and looked out the window, 

'So, this is Austuria'…it was…was like the paradise I dreamed of so often, my place where no one hated me, and I helped them, and they helped me, I sighed… I felt the warmth of a hand touch my wounded arm, I flinched and looked to Van, who was holding my arm,

"Careful!" I said, I wrenched it away from his grasp, "I was just inspecting one of your wounds!" he growled,

"I'll have to inspect all of them," I blushed, my arm moved to the deep cut that was on my stomach,

"Oh no…you are not checking all of them…" I shook my head,

"I have to, since no doctor will, they believe in the curse of the Mystic Moon, unless you want me to do it by force, I suggest you let me…" his eyes glinted, I sighed,

"Fine, just…NOT in front of MERLE!!!" I yelled,

"Merle…" Van looked to the cat girl; she huffed, but left the room. "There, alright, now give me your arm," he asked, I gave him my arm, he pulled up the long black sleeve, and gasped, my wound was red, really red, luckily, it wasn't bleeding, but it had white pus, and looked really gross, Van took pressed on one part of it, I gasped as red hot pain shot up my arm. "It's worse than I thought…" he muttered, he took some of the strange liquid and put it on my wound, he bandaged it up, "You will have to change the bandage every day, ok? Now…let's look at the others…" he did the same to my legs, and my other arm. He pulled up my shirt so he could see the gaping wound, it went higher that he would have thought, and I thought, I blushed as he pulled my shirt up higher, he realised just where it went, and blushed, pulling the shirt back down, "The one on your stomach and chest, is worse than any of the others," he said, he rubbed some of the liquid onto the wound, not all of it… his hands were warm, I had thought they would be colder. He wrapped a bandage around it, when he had to do it up, he had his arms over my shoulders, and his head over one of my shoulders to, I blushed, as I saw the all too familiar cat eye peeping through the door. The eye widened, and disappeared, I heard the patter of feet as she ran away. When Van finished, and stood up, starting to walk to the door, I got the gut feeling again, I tackled him down to the ground, and less than a millisecond later, something crashed through the wall, I noticed that it was the tendrils from the invisible opponents, I drew my sword, and slashed through them as they came shooting back through.

"Van, get to Escaflowne," I said, dodging another wave of tendrils, one just grazed my face, leaving a burning sensation, "Don't worry, I'll be just fine" I said, I picked him up from the ground, he nodded,

"I'll come back for you!" he said, as he ran out the door, and away. I sighed, I ran the other way, I had no idea where I was going, but anywhere had to be better than getting caught by the icy tendrils! I heard clanging of steel on steel above me,

'Van…' I thought, 'Please be safe…' I clutched my pendant, and ran as fast as possible, to any where, anyone, just not here!

Another cliffie… my chapters are so short! I have to try and lengthen them… but it's quality over quantity right?