Disclaimers: I do not own Escaflowne but I do own Ashley!!
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Nine
Ashley awoke, it was night time and Van was gone, sighing she really did miss the days all three of them would lay together in the grass and sleep on those lazy afternoons. How she would watch her older brother make faces at the court whenever he didn't agree with them, despite his age he still acted like a child. That was what she missed, she wouldn't care if no one agreed in her family, she just wanted everyone to be together and loving every minute of it.
Sighing the girl dragged herself up out of the feather bed that Van, no doubt, had probably insisted be put into her room. She didn't understand it, but the first time she was with Hitomi, she felt a good, natural vibe coming from her, now even though she id in the room next door; she gives off a strong evil aura. It scared Ashley almost shitless when she first felt the negative energy being given off, but didn't understand why. Plus, no one ever suspects the Seeress of the Mystic Moon to be evil do they? Shaking the thought from her head Ashley climbed to her feet and stretched her body out, she hadn't slept that good in ages. Walking over to the door, she found that it wasn't locked and upon opening it found no one guarding the door. Shrugging Ashley walked out of the room and shut the large green door behind her. Curiousness getting the best of her, she followed a scurry of voices down the hallway and into a half ajar opened door.
Van had been argueing with Allen for the last half hour on taking Ashley back to Zaibach, but Allen kept on insisting on leaving Ashley here. Allen was saying insane things like ' she could've been brainwashed' or ' she may be tricking everyone'. Van was really tired of it and about to beat ' Finesse Boy' as Ashley would say into a bloody pulp. Allen uses big words to intimidate Van, but in fact, Van knows how stupid hair boy is and how to get under his skin. But, for the time being he wanted to be on Allen's good side for the sake of his sister. (( wait, you mean there is a good side? :: gets hit with a broom::))
" She has not been brainwashed and she's not decieving us Allen!!" Van practically yelled, Allen rolled his powder blue eyes and looked out the window to the dark forest below. Ashley hadn't even known it was dark out; Van on the other hand was stark mad he was seeing white. Ashley blinked and took this as a good time to enter the conversation before Van actually did kill hair boy. Ashley knocked on the ajar door three times and waited for someone to come and open it.
" Come in." Was all she heard, groaning she opened the door and walked in. Allen's eyes went wide but she only caught a glimpse as he snapped his head to the side to look out the window. Van though just smiled and threw an arm over her small shoulders, or atleast best he could, she is short ya know.
" What're you doing up?" Van asked her, he was still killing himself for kidnapping her against her will, he should've asked her if she wanted to come with him.
" Well, besides the fact that I slept all day...I dunno." Ashley replied, Allen snorted which caused her to glare at the blonde Austurian Knight of Cali. " Hey ya hair boy, sorry back there but I was really pissed off." Ashley tried to smile, but couldn't. She didn't even know why she was apologizing to this guy. He seemed like an egotistical jerk who only hung around girls like her to get some. Her eyes narrowed for a moment without her realizing, though she quickly opened them before Allen tried to say she was killing them all with her eyes. She watched as Allen eyed her though nodded his acceptance, Ashley smiled at him then latched herself onto Van. Looking up at him, she caught him staring at her. Normally this would scare anyone, but Ashley knew it was just that he couldn't get enough of her. Not in a weird psyco brotherly sexual thing like most people would think the first time they heard that statement. But, as in a long time no see, long lost relative kind of way. For the firs three years of little Ashley's life, she had two wonderful brothers who loved her a lot. On Earth she only had her one female guardian who she was told was her real mother. She couldn't beleive for years she actually beleived this, I mean there were so many differences. Shaking these thoughts from her head she smiled at her brother and turned back to a now standing Allen.
" Well, let us take a tour of the ship, you're going to be here a while lady Ashley, so you should get aquanted with everyone and everything around you." Allen said breaking the unusual silence. Ashley nodded, though turned to her brother who was frowning.
" You coming too?" She asked him, she watched as he glared at Allen before softening his features to look at her.
" Yes, I'll be coming with you." Van told her, though there was a hidden meaning behind his words directed towards Allen, which meant that Van didn't trust Allen alone with his sister. (( who would? :: allen fans attack her with nerf bats::))
Hitomi was sitting in her room contemplating on what she should do about the whole Ashley/Van thing. IF Van really was in love with Ashley, where would that land her? (( remember...Hitomi dunno Ashley ish Van's sister.)) What if that girl became the Queen of Fanelia, that would just be the downfall of all Gaea. It really didn't look like that Ashley girl could handle as much as washing the dishes. Her body build wasn't great, she looked like a weak little kitten using bigger badder cats as a self protective sheild against everything else.
" I will destroy her." Hitomi said out loud, though forgot Merle was in her room and immediatly hit herself.
" What was that Hitomi?" Merle asked confused.
" Nothing." Hitomi inphasised this with a wave of her hand. Merle shrugged and continued to go through Hitomi's things.
Allen had droned on and on about how the Crusade wasn't a regular levey ship, but a spectacular work of craftsmanship and teamwork. Let us say that Ashley was damn near ready to kill herself with a dull pointed stick just to amuse herself. Geez, even being shoved into a circular room, and told to find a corner is more fun than this hell she was being put through. Though, her insterest was perked up when they had come to the 'work out room' as it was so beautifully dubbed. It was exactly like the training room on the Vione only smaller. The room had four large support beams around the room, three punching bags, four archery targets, one sword fighting arena, and other miscellanious things to do. Ashley's interest immediatly perked up at the thought of working out. The biggest work out she had was when she was dueling with Migel in the training room. Though she was used to harsh competition when training for swim tournaments and such. Sometimes the couch made them do martial arts to strengthen their leg muscles and the length they can stretch them, they needed as much flexibility and strength they could get to beat the other highschools in her area. Though, the weird thing was that when Ashley would work out, the best thing she found possible was to out her mp3 player on triple base, put it on some really fast beating techno music and try to punch and kick to the beat of the pulsating drums, or other beats. Normally the really dull beats were the punches which were more defined, and the higher pitched beats were kicks, and sometimes three beats right after another were fast jabs. It worked in her mind, though most people found it inhuman to do such a thing.
Ashley was dissappointed to leave the room, the room brought so many memories from long ago, as well as recent memories back to life. Sighing sadly she followed her brother and Allen out the large enterance doorway and slowly made their way to the front where the deck was. The crew stared at her for a while, though one glare from Van made them tune it down a notch. Gaddess, whom from her brother was Allen's first mate, had come over to them and held his hand out to Ashley. She smiled up at him since he was , like most people, taller than she was. Firmly grasping his hand she shook it and smiled wider at his shocked response.
" So, this is the little lady who was at the Austurian ball." Ashley liked Gaddess voice, it was soft and relaxing. Though she had to admit Allen's voice was deep, relaxing and sexy, it totally could not compare to Dilandau's.
' Where the hell did that come from?' Ashley asked herself as she frowned slightly.
" Yes, well I guess I kinda scared the shit outta a lot of people that night huh?" Ashley laughed at the crews horrified expressions. Van laughed and put a hand on her shoulder, looking around confused it was like with the dragonslayers.
' So, the two sides aren't that different from each other are they? Then why do they fight? Why don't they just come to terms and get a long like civilized human beings.' Ashley thought to herself, though was interrupted by Allen once again.
" Well, no one certainly expected that, we're not used to ladies cursing or at least not openly." Ashley's eyes turned into slits at this remark. ' He doesn't think I'm a lady, eh?' Ashley smirked and decided to piss him off.
" Well, not all girls are willing to be like Princess Millerna and be all helpless and think they'll go to hell for just saying the word 'damn'." Ashley replied in a non-chalant attitude.
" Well, that type of talk could get you into a lot of trouble." Allen countered.
" What's it to you anyways, I know you don't give a rat's ass about me so stop pretending and be a man, or are you just a woman in disguise." Ashley was half teasing and half serious. Who the hell did this jerk think he was anyways? Ashley heard some ' ooooo's' and some ' uh oh's ' going around the room but she didn't care.
" Well, Fanel. I don't you'd just here to help us win this war." Allen answered trying to keep his cool, if he hit a lady in front of his men he might not be able to live it down and they would over throw him.
" Well, Schezar, what the fuck makes you think I will help you at all." Ashley's voice was radiating an aura that told everyone she was madder'n a moose in mating season. There was no reason for this but if he was going to push her she was going to make sure she pushed harder.
" I don't but if you see things the right way then you will realize that the side you're fighting for is the wrong side." Allen's words were just above a whisper and were warning her to back off. But, Ashley's lack of common sense made her go further just to push him to the breaking point.
" What makes you think there is a right and a wrong side." Ashley's whisper was cold and feirce though it got the meaning across. Ashley then proceeded to walk down the hallway back to her brother's room leaving the crew to laugh at their captian.
" Get back to work!!" Allen yelled, which sent everyone bustling about again. Allen looked accusingly at Van who only shrugged and followed his feisty sister to their room.
Ashley was fuming, she was sitting on the edge of the feather bed and thinking up all kinds of ways to make Allen pay for his idiocy. She watched her brother enter the room with a grin on his face. Ashley took one look at him and couldn't help but smile too, it was pretty fun to see the knight of Cali lose his cool.
" Ashley." Van said, Ashley looked into his crimson colored eyes and nodded her head in acknowledgement. " He's actually right about one thing though, the way to talk when people make you mad may get you into a bit of trouble." Ashley snorted very unlady like and rolled her dark violet eyes which were by now almost black in her pissed off state.
" Yeah, well on Earth if you're not a bad ass then people walk all over you." Ashley whispered. She saw Van's eyes turn quizzical at this statement as he leaned against the large green door.
" Well, Hitomi told us that on Earth everything's perfect everyone's nice." Van stated. Ashley laughed out loud like someone was tickling her.
" Oh my god!! and you fell for that bullshit!! On Earth it's every man, woman and child for themselves. It's a like an unimaginable war down there, no one gives a flying fuck about anyone, well some people do but the n ot caring population is gradually growing." Ashley snorted again at how stupid Earth was. Van sighed and walked over to Ashley, sitting down next to her he turned to her and hugged her.
Blinking Ashley hugged him back but wondered why, it didn't make any sense, he was hugging her for no reason. Sighing she thought about how her life would have been different if she wasn't sent to live on Earth. Shaking the thoughts from her head she continued to hold her brother, for some reason she felt he needed this. He seemed so distant before they had found out they were brother and sister, it felt like he hadn't had anyone hug him like this before, just to hold him let his fears slip away for just a fraction of a second.
" Thank you." was all Van said. Ashley shifted so that his head was laying in her lap and began to run her fingers through his tousled looking raven hair. Ashley smiled and remembered how Folken had done this when she was little to her and Van both.
" For what?" she asked and looked down at his peaceful face, his crimson eyes roaming over to the room.
" For holding me, no one ever holds me, well Merle hugs me almost to death but it's not the same as holding." Ashley smiled as felt good about herself. " Ashley?"
" Yeah?"
" What would happen if one of us had to die?" Van asked a little hesitantly.
" I don't know." Ashley truthfully said, then her delicate dark violet eyebrows knitted together as she thought about it, though was interrupted by Van.
" I'm going to help you get out of here." Van stated as he closed his eyes, Ashley smiled again and giggled, halfway raising a hand to her small mouth she stopped. Her dark violet colored orbs were over taken by the black darkness of her pupils as they dialated. She was entering another vision.
~Vision~
Ashley was floating about various types of Gaean trees, though managed to spot herself and Van on a flying dragon. They were trying to lure the dragonslayer unit from the Crusade, one of the dragonslayers must have not noticed her there for the dragonslayer let his crima claw spiral through the air. Ashley screamed as the liquid metal hurled itself towards her, backing up she awaited something to happen only to feel herself falling. Ashley screamed as she realized she was the one actually falling, though all became black.
~End Vision~
Ashley gasped for breath as she felt her body being shaken, her pupils un-dialated and she could clearly see the face of her confused brother above her. Blinking rapidly she sat up and rubbed the back of her head where it began to throb in pain. Obviously her brother had pushed her off of him and onto the floor without thinking.
" What happened?!?" Her brother asked worriedly.
" I had another vision, I'm fine." Ashley reassured him, a visible sigh of releif escaped him as he placed a large, roughyl calloused hand on his chest.
" What about?" He asked her, he was now interested in the vision.
" It showed us on a large dragon, and the dragonslayers. Though I didn't see anything else before it all went black and I woke up." Ashley lied, she did tell half the truth, she did see all of that, but didn't tell him what happened right before it all went black. Suddenly before anyone could say anything Gaddess burst into the room panting, catching his breath he finally spoke.
" The dragonslayers are approaching Van." Van looked at his sister.
" Man, my visions always come too late." She mumbled before following Van into the docking bay.
Infront of her was this large massive machine that looked surprisingly like the dragonslayers guymelefs, only on Earth they'd be called mecha. The guymelefe was a creamy white and had a large red jewel in the middle of it's chest. Ashley reached up and touched the jewel and it formed into some sort of liquid stuff. Ashley's reaction was: Pull her hand away as fast as she could, run behind Van, hide; then hesitantly look at the strange thing. Van chuckled before opening the Escaflowne, getting in he some how turned it on and picked Ashley up, which made her a little peeved. Standing in front of the melef bay doors he jumped out into the darkness and somehow the large machine turned into a dragon. Ashley was wide eyed and practically drooling by now, the veiw was absolutely wonderful from up there.
" So what is this thing?" Ashley yelled because of the wind rushing by them.
" It's a guymelef, called Escaflowne." Van answered and pulled hard on the reigns, Ashley sensed something behind them and turned around just in time to see the crima claw. Blinking Ashley didn't even think about her vision as she yelped and stepped back rather fast. Not thinking, she went over the side of the dragon, screaming Ashley began to wave her arms and legs trying to 'fly' as she would have so beautifully called it.
Ashley screamed at the top of her lungs, the wind rushing by her as she pummled down towards the gaean ground she doubted if anyone heard her. Though, she fell onto something hard, hitting the base of her neck onto something she was immediatly knocked unconcious.
Note: Hey ya!! well this is chapter nine, I hoped you liked it, it may be a little boring. It's really hot here and like I'm dieing so I'm writting this while I'm in zombie mode. Anyways, sorry Allen fans... I dun really like him. and I'm sorry Hitomi fans, I don't like her either. lol...anyhoo r&r if ya want. JA!!
-Koori
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Nine
Ashley awoke, it was night time and Van was gone, sighing she really did miss the days all three of them would lay together in the grass and sleep on those lazy afternoons. How she would watch her older brother make faces at the court whenever he didn't agree with them, despite his age he still acted like a child. That was what she missed, she wouldn't care if no one agreed in her family, she just wanted everyone to be together and loving every minute of it.
Sighing the girl dragged herself up out of the feather bed that Van, no doubt, had probably insisted be put into her room. She didn't understand it, but the first time she was with Hitomi, she felt a good, natural vibe coming from her, now even though she id in the room next door; she gives off a strong evil aura. It scared Ashley almost shitless when she first felt the negative energy being given off, but didn't understand why. Plus, no one ever suspects the Seeress of the Mystic Moon to be evil do they? Shaking the thought from her head Ashley climbed to her feet and stretched her body out, she hadn't slept that good in ages. Walking over to the door, she found that it wasn't locked and upon opening it found no one guarding the door. Shrugging Ashley walked out of the room and shut the large green door behind her. Curiousness getting the best of her, she followed a scurry of voices down the hallway and into a half ajar opened door.
Van had been argueing with Allen for the last half hour on taking Ashley back to Zaibach, but Allen kept on insisting on leaving Ashley here. Allen was saying insane things like ' she could've been brainwashed' or ' she may be tricking everyone'. Van was really tired of it and about to beat ' Finesse Boy' as Ashley would say into a bloody pulp. Allen uses big words to intimidate Van, but in fact, Van knows how stupid hair boy is and how to get under his skin. But, for the time being he wanted to be on Allen's good side for the sake of his sister. (( wait, you mean there is a good side? :: gets hit with a broom::))
" She has not been brainwashed and she's not decieving us Allen!!" Van practically yelled, Allen rolled his powder blue eyes and looked out the window to the dark forest below. Ashley hadn't even known it was dark out; Van on the other hand was stark mad he was seeing white. Ashley blinked and took this as a good time to enter the conversation before Van actually did kill hair boy. Ashley knocked on the ajar door three times and waited for someone to come and open it.
" Come in." Was all she heard, groaning she opened the door and walked in. Allen's eyes went wide but she only caught a glimpse as he snapped his head to the side to look out the window. Van though just smiled and threw an arm over her small shoulders, or atleast best he could, she is short ya know.
" What're you doing up?" Van asked her, he was still killing himself for kidnapping her against her will, he should've asked her if she wanted to come with him.
" Well, besides the fact that I slept all day...I dunno." Ashley replied, Allen snorted which caused her to glare at the blonde Austurian Knight of Cali. " Hey ya hair boy, sorry back there but I was really pissed off." Ashley tried to smile, but couldn't. She didn't even know why she was apologizing to this guy. He seemed like an egotistical jerk who only hung around girls like her to get some. Her eyes narrowed for a moment without her realizing, though she quickly opened them before Allen tried to say she was killing them all with her eyes. She watched as Allen eyed her though nodded his acceptance, Ashley smiled at him then latched herself onto Van. Looking up at him, she caught him staring at her. Normally this would scare anyone, but Ashley knew it was just that he couldn't get enough of her. Not in a weird psyco brotherly sexual thing like most people would think the first time they heard that statement. But, as in a long time no see, long lost relative kind of way. For the firs three years of little Ashley's life, she had two wonderful brothers who loved her a lot. On Earth she only had her one female guardian who she was told was her real mother. She couldn't beleive for years she actually beleived this, I mean there were so many differences. Shaking these thoughts from her head she smiled at her brother and turned back to a now standing Allen.
" Well, let us take a tour of the ship, you're going to be here a while lady Ashley, so you should get aquanted with everyone and everything around you." Allen said breaking the unusual silence. Ashley nodded, though turned to her brother who was frowning.
" You coming too?" She asked him, she watched as he glared at Allen before softening his features to look at her.
" Yes, I'll be coming with you." Van told her, though there was a hidden meaning behind his words directed towards Allen, which meant that Van didn't trust Allen alone with his sister. (( who would? :: allen fans attack her with nerf bats::))
Hitomi was sitting in her room contemplating on what she should do about the whole Ashley/Van thing. IF Van really was in love with Ashley, where would that land her? (( remember...Hitomi dunno Ashley ish Van's sister.)) What if that girl became the Queen of Fanelia, that would just be the downfall of all Gaea. It really didn't look like that Ashley girl could handle as much as washing the dishes. Her body build wasn't great, she looked like a weak little kitten using bigger badder cats as a self protective sheild against everything else.
" I will destroy her." Hitomi said out loud, though forgot Merle was in her room and immediatly hit herself.
" What was that Hitomi?" Merle asked confused.
" Nothing." Hitomi inphasised this with a wave of her hand. Merle shrugged and continued to go through Hitomi's things.
Allen had droned on and on about how the Crusade wasn't a regular levey ship, but a spectacular work of craftsmanship and teamwork. Let us say that Ashley was damn near ready to kill herself with a dull pointed stick just to amuse herself. Geez, even being shoved into a circular room, and told to find a corner is more fun than this hell she was being put through. Though, her insterest was perked up when they had come to the 'work out room' as it was so beautifully dubbed. It was exactly like the training room on the Vione only smaller. The room had four large support beams around the room, three punching bags, four archery targets, one sword fighting arena, and other miscellanious things to do. Ashley's interest immediatly perked up at the thought of working out. The biggest work out she had was when she was dueling with Migel in the training room. Though she was used to harsh competition when training for swim tournaments and such. Sometimes the couch made them do martial arts to strengthen their leg muscles and the length they can stretch them, they needed as much flexibility and strength they could get to beat the other highschools in her area. Though, the weird thing was that when Ashley would work out, the best thing she found possible was to out her mp3 player on triple base, put it on some really fast beating techno music and try to punch and kick to the beat of the pulsating drums, or other beats. Normally the really dull beats were the punches which were more defined, and the higher pitched beats were kicks, and sometimes three beats right after another were fast jabs. It worked in her mind, though most people found it inhuman to do such a thing.
Ashley was dissappointed to leave the room, the room brought so many memories from long ago, as well as recent memories back to life. Sighing sadly she followed her brother and Allen out the large enterance doorway and slowly made their way to the front where the deck was. The crew stared at her for a while, though one glare from Van made them tune it down a notch. Gaddess, whom from her brother was Allen's first mate, had come over to them and held his hand out to Ashley. She smiled up at him since he was , like most people, taller than she was. Firmly grasping his hand she shook it and smiled wider at his shocked response.
" So, this is the little lady who was at the Austurian ball." Ashley liked Gaddess voice, it was soft and relaxing. Though she had to admit Allen's voice was deep, relaxing and sexy, it totally could not compare to Dilandau's.
' Where the hell did that come from?' Ashley asked herself as she frowned slightly.
" Yes, well I guess I kinda scared the shit outta a lot of people that night huh?" Ashley laughed at the crews horrified expressions. Van laughed and put a hand on her shoulder, looking around confused it was like with the dragonslayers.
' So, the two sides aren't that different from each other are they? Then why do they fight? Why don't they just come to terms and get a long like civilized human beings.' Ashley thought to herself, though was interrupted by Allen once again.
" Well, no one certainly expected that, we're not used to ladies cursing or at least not openly." Ashley's eyes turned into slits at this remark. ' He doesn't think I'm a lady, eh?' Ashley smirked and decided to piss him off.
" Well, not all girls are willing to be like Princess Millerna and be all helpless and think they'll go to hell for just saying the word 'damn'." Ashley replied in a non-chalant attitude.
" Well, that type of talk could get you into a lot of trouble." Allen countered.
" What's it to you anyways, I know you don't give a rat's ass about me so stop pretending and be a man, or are you just a woman in disguise." Ashley was half teasing and half serious. Who the hell did this jerk think he was anyways? Ashley heard some ' ooooo's' and some ' uh oh's ' going around the room but she didn't care.
" Well, Fanel. I don't you'd just here to help us win this war." Allen answered trying to keep his cool, if he hit a lady in front of his men he might not be able to live it down and they would over throw him.
" Well, Schezar, what the fuck makes you think I will help you at all." Ashley's voice was radiating an aura that told everyone she was madder'n a moose in mating season. There was no reason for this but if he was going to push her she was going to make sure she pushed harder.
" I don't but if you see things the right way then you will realize that the side you're fighting for is the wrong side." Allen's words were just above a whisper and were warning her to back off. But, Ashley's lack of common sense made her go further just to push him to the breaking point.
" What makes you think there is a right and a wrong side." Ashley's whisper was cold and feirce though it got the meaning across. Ashley then proceeded to walk down the hallway back to her brother's room leaving the crew to laugh at their captian.
" Get back to work!!" Allen yelled, which sent everyone bustling about again. Allen looked accusingly at Van who only shrugged and followed his feisty sister to their room.
Ashley was fuming, she was sitting on the edge of the feather bed and thinking up all kinds of ways to make Allen pay for his idiocy. She watched her brother enter the room with a grin on his face. Ashley took one look at him and couldn't help but smile too, it was pretty fun to see the knight of Cali lose his cool.
" Ashley." Van said, Ashley looked into his crimson colored eyes and nodded her head in acknowledgement. " He's actually right about one thing though, the way to talk when people make you mad may get you into a bit of trouble." Ashley snorted very unlady like and rolled her dark violet eyes which were by now almost black in her pissed off state.
" Yeah, well on Earth if you're not a bad ass then people walk all over you." Ashley whispered. She saw Van's eyes turn quizzical at this statement as he leaned against the large green door.
" Well, Hitomi told us that on Earth everything's perfect everyone's nice." Van stated. Ashley laughed out loud like someone was tickling her.
" Oh my god!! and you fell for that bullshit!! On Earth it's every man, woman and child for themselves. It's a like an unimaginable war down there, no one gives a flying fuck about anyone, well some people do but the n ot caring population is gradually growing." Ashley snorted again at how stupid Earth was. Van sighed and walked over to Ashley, sitting down next to her he turned to her and hugged her.
Blinking Ashley hugged him back but wondered why, it didn't make any sense, he was hugging her for no reason. Sighing she thought about how her life would have been different if she wasn't sent to live on Earth. Shaking the thoughts from her head she continued to hold her brother, for some reason she felt he needed this. He seemed so distant before they had found out they were brother and sister, it felt like he hadn't had anyone hug him like this before, just to hold him let his fears slip away for just a fraction of a second.
" Thank you." was all Van said. Ashley shifted so that his head was laying in her lap and began to run her fingers through his tousled looking raven hair. Ashley smiled and remembered how Folken had done this when she was little to her and Van both.
" For what?" she asked and looked down at his peaceful face, his crimson eyes roaming over to the room.
" For holding me, no one ever holds me, well Merle hugs me almost to death but it's not the same as holding." Ashley smiled as felt good about herself. " Ashley?"
" Yeah?"
" What would happen if one of us had to die?" Van asked a little hesitantly.
" I don't know." Ashley truthfully said, then her delicate dark violet eyebrows knitted together as she thought about it, though was interrupted by Van.
" I'm going to help you get out of here." Van stated as he closed his eyes, Ashley smiled again and giggled, halfway raising a hand to her small mouth she stopped. Her dark violet colored orbs were over taken by the black darkness of her pupils as they dialated. She was entering another vision.
~Vision~
Ashley was floating about various types of Gaean trees, though managed to spot herself and Van on a flying dragon. They were trying to lure the dragonslayer unit from the Crusade, one of the dragonslayers must have not noticed her there for the dragonslayer let his crima claw spiral through the air. Ashley screamed as the liquid metal hurled itself towards her, backing up she awaited something to happen only to feel herself falling. Ashley screamed as she realized she was the one actually falling, though all became black.
~End Vision~
Ashley gasped for breath as she felt her body being shaken, her pupils un-dialated and she could clearly see the face of her confused brother above her. Blinking rapidly she sat up and rubbed the back of her head where it began to throb in pain. Obviously her brother had pushed her off of him and onto the floor without thinking.
" What happened?!?" Her brother asked worriedly.
" I had another vision, I'm fine." Ashley reassured him, a visible sigh of releif escaped him as he placed a large, roughyl calloused hand on his chest.
" What about?" He asked her, he was now interested in the vision.
" It showed us on a large dragon, and the dragonslayers. Though I didn't see anything else before it all went black and I woke up." Ashley lied, she did tell half the truth, she did see all of that, but didn't tell him what happened right before it all went black. Suddenly before anyone could say anything Gaddess burst into the room panting, catching his breath he finally spoke.
" The dragonslayers are approaching Van." Van looked at his sister.
" Man, my visions always come too late." She mumbled before following Van into the docking bay.
Infront of her was this large massive machine that looked surprisingly like the dragonslayers guymelefs, only on Earth they'd be called mecha. The guymelefe was a creamy white and had a large red jewel in the middle of it's chest. Ashley reached up and touched the jewel and it formed into some sort of liquid stuff. Ashley's reaction was: Pull her hand away as fast as she could, run behind Van, hide; then hesitantly look at the strange thing. Van chuckled before opening the Escaflowne, getting in he some how turned it on and picked Ashley up, which made her a little peeved. Standing in front of the melef bay doors he jumped out into the darkness and somehow the large machine turned into a dragon. Ashley was wide eyed and practically drooling by now, the veiw was absolutely wonderful from up there.
" So what is this thing?" Ashley yelled because of the wind rushing by them.
" It's a guymelef, called Escaflowne." Van answered and pulled hard on the reigns, Ashley sensed something behind them and turned around just in time to see the crima claw. Blinking Ashley didn't even think about her vision as she yelped and stepped back rather fast. Not thinking, she went over the side of the dragon, screaming Ashley began to wave her arms and legs trying to 'fly' as she would have so beautifully called it.
Ashley screamed at the top of her lungs, the wind rushing by her as she pummled down towards the gaean ground she doubted if anyone heard her. Though, she fell onto something hard, hitting the base of her neck onto something she was immediatly knocked unconcious.
Note: Hey ya!! well this is chapter nine, I hoped you liked it, it may be a little boring. It's really hot here and like I'm dieing so I'm writting this while I'm in zombie mode. Anyways, sorry Allen fans... I dun really like him. and I'm sorry Hitomi fans, I don't like her either. lol...anyhoo r&r if ya want. JA!!
-Koori