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Explanations: Trista10 thank you so very much for that review! And you are right those are mistakes in the story but let me see if I can fix them in this explanation. This I actually had planed in the rough draft of the story but forgot to write it. Yes Amano was a senior and Yukari and Hitomi I think are sophomores. Three years puts them all in the same college. Second. The track teacher is the bus driver. I've seen schools that do that. (Plus it digs me out of one more hole) About them following Hitomi blindly into the wilderness...they are in shock and following her because she is the only one who knows what's going on. They can't do anything for themselves at the moment. And on the point about Merle you are so right. But I got it into my head that Merle was 15 in the series and would be 18 now so can we just pretend cat girls age differently then humans. I'm so very sorry for the mistakes. And once again Thank You So Much Trista10.
Also: I really sorry for not updating for so long. I was in Florida with no computer. But I came back and had all these wonderful reviews.
The doctors rushed into the room. Van was quickly pushed aside to make room fro medical equipment and doctors. One of his attendants ushered him out of the room towards the grand entrance of the palace.
Van fought against him he wanted to stay with Hitomi. It had taken him this long to find her again he didn't want to lose her now.
The attendant rushed him to the greeting hall where eleven people were standing. They looked nervous frightened upset and excited all at the same time.
Judging from the clothes they were wearing they weren't from around Fanelia. Vans best bet was that they were from the mystic moon.
"HEY IT"S YOU" said one red haired girl. Van looked closer and realized he had seen her before.
He had seen her the first time he had gone to the mystic moon which confirmed his suspicions.
"Where is Hitomi?" she asked with a concerned look on her face. A man came up behind her Van was startled because he looked just like Allen "You are the man she fell in love with right?"
Yukari turned around and whacked Amano over the back of the head. "Hush that's not polite to ask! Besides just because she fell in love with him doesn't mean he fell in love with her. Hitomi might not want him to know."
Van almost laughed at the thought. 'Not in love with her? More likely the other way around.' When they turned around and looked into Vans eyes they knew that he loved their friend just as much as she loved him.
Van snapped out of his shock at seeing them quickly enough. The worry came back in a wave. "Hitomi is gravely wounded" he said. The shock was apparent and immediate on the faces of her friends.
Amano strode quickly to where Van was standing and lifted him up by the front of his shirt. "We sent her to you in good health a few minutes ago and now you tell use she is hurt, you have some explaining to do."
The guards rushed forward to remove Amano from their beloved leader but Van stopped them with a wave of his hand. He had explaining to do but now wasn't the time so he gave them a very brief explanation of the events that had occurred in the last few minutes.
He turned and walked away and motioned the bewildered group to follow him. He stopped outside the room where doctors were frantically working to keep Hitomi alive. He walked into the room and went to a corner where he sat and waited.
Finally the doctors stood. "We've done all we can" one of them said grim faced. "The only way for her to live is to want to live. My suggestion is to move her to another room to rest." Van walked over to where Hitomi lay. She was deathly pale and cold. He gently picked her up and started walking down the hallway.
A small moan escaped her mouth. She opened her eyes blearily and said the seven words he had wanted to hear for a long time. "Van I want to stay with you."
Then her head slumped and she fell back into blissful unconsciousness. Amano and Yukari were close behind
Van and they heard. And despite their worry they smiled at one another because they knew their friend had found her place her love and her life.
Hitomi was in the darkest of dark places. She looked all around for anything that even resembled light but saw nothing. Then at the same time two lights appeared.
She shielded her eyes from the sudden light but when she opened them three figures met her line of vision. On one side of Hitomi was Amano and Yukari but on the other side Van was standing with his arms outstretched.
She ran towards Van but as she did Amano and Yukari moved father away. She turned to try to get them to come back but as she moved towards them Van moved away.
Then the vision changed and suddenly Hitomi was drifting over a battle scene. Van was there. So was she. But the important thing in the picture was that Escaflowne was there too.
The picture shifted again to reveal Amano and Yukari standing next to Allen on a new ship. It wasn't the Crusade. But what ship was it?
Then the picture changed one last time. The people on her track team were all in a tower. They were all scared and hungry. When she drifted over to look out the small window in the tower all she saw was black. Then as if pulled through the small window all was black again.
But this time she could hear voices through the dark. And they were talking about her.
"The only way for her to live is to want to live! Move her to a room where she can rest" Said an unrecognizable voice. She wanted to live. She did want to be with Van. And she wouldn't let a little thing like death stop her.
She gathered all her energy and opened her eyes. "Van I want to stay with you." Then the blackness engulfed her again and she started on the long struggle back to the light.
Van set Hitomi down gently on the bed. He smiled just a little bit. Hitomi would pull through this he knew. Once she had her mind set on something she wouldn't ever let anything get in her way.
The doctor had said something about rest and he planned to give it to her. He would sit very quietly at the end of her bed and wait. Or at least that was the plan. But that plan was soon interrupted.
One of the people Hitomi brought with her came up to him. It was a boy and he like the rest of the people looked panicked.
'Wait a minute. Correct that thought. Those two over there don't look panicked they look happy." He thought looking at Amano and Yukari. They stood silently in a corner holding each other with small smiles on their faces.
The boy was forgotten during his thought processes but his attention was returned as the boy spoke up in a small quivering voice. "Can you get us home?"
Anger started inside of Van. This boy's friend was almost dying and he wanted to go home. But as soon as he said that all of the people except the two in the corner started wailing.
'Those are the people I've met before.' He thought while looking at them. Once again his attention was turned to the louder group.
"Yes" one of them cried "Take us home." Van sighed. Hitomi wasn't going to get any rest with these people wailing like this. 'Oh well. I might as well return them home the same way I did Hitomi. It's about time I visited Folken's grave anyway.'
Van stood up sharply. "Follow me" he said softly so as not to disturb Hitomi. 'It's not like it makes a difference at this point" he thought. He started on the short walk to Folken's grave. The track members following behind silently still too shocked to say or do much.
At Folken's grave he immediately went to the small alter in front of it. It had been erected a short time after Hitomi left to store the energist. It could only be opened with the pendent Hitomi had given him.
He grasped the small item in his hands. It was the only thing that had really sustained him these past three years. He opened it quickly and pulled out the energist.
"Everyone gather rounded if you want to go home." He called to the group. The result was startling. Most of the track team surged forward and almost trampled him on the desire to get as close as possible.
Three people stayed behind. The oldest one of the group apparently the leader stayed back looking hesitant.
"What's wrong?" Van asked him. He replied "I don't really want to leave any of my students here. Maybe we should wait for Hitomi to come back with us." Van smiled inwardly. The man didn't know how long he would be waiting.
"Hitomi is staying here with me." He said with a confidence that he hadn't had in three years. The teacher was on his last nerve and that confidence in Van's voice was enough to convince him to go home. He walked over to the group and huddled with the rest of the students.
Van now set his sights on the other two. Amano and Yukari stood behind the alter. "What's wrong with you two? He asked.
Yukari spoke up first "We are her best friends and there is no way in hell we are leaving without saying goodbye. We will go later when Hitomi is up and about and after the wedding." Van blushed slightly at hearing the word wedding. Amano had opened his mouth to say something when Yukari had interrupted. Now he silently closed it. His girlfriend had quite literally taken the words from his mouth.
Van openly smiled at them. "Any friend of Hitomi's is a friend of mine." He said. He held the energist aloft and the light shot down from the sky. "Just like three years ago." He muttered to himself.
All of the group except for himself moved upward along the beam. When they were almost out of sight though a terrible thing happened. A shadow moved across the light. And the outline of a guymeleff was seen on the ground. When the shadow passed they were all gone.
Amano and Yukari looked up t the sky in shock. All their friends had just disappeared when they were about to disappear. But this time they doubted they were going anywhere pleasant.
Van had a decision to make. He might be able to save them. If he just put the energist in Escaflowne.
He didn't want to. Escaflowne symbolized killing and pain.
But! If these last few hours were the indication of anything that would come he wouldn't have a choice. First the poison now this. He made his mind up.
'Anything for my kingdom and my love!' He thrust the energist into Escaflowne and hopped into the cockpit once more.
So many memories flooded back to him. Memories he had tried to forget. He had no choice now; it was too late to back out. He would save them. Because that is what Hitomi would want him to do.
Amano and Yukari were left standing as the man they knew as Van got inside a giant robot and took off after their friends.
There wasn't much they could do but wait. And wait they did. But no one was coming back. Then when they were starting to get fed up with waiting a blond haired man that looked almost exactly like ...Amano walked down the path.
Yukari and Amano stared and so did the look alike.
"What the hell is going on?" Shouted two voices at the exact same time.
Hitomi struggled through the blackness. She had to stop her friends from being taken away.
She had to tell Van that seen the Escaflowne being used again.
She had to tell him how she felt and that she was sorry for leaving. She saw a small light and she fought her way to it.
Then she was free. She opened her eyes and looked around the room that Van had left her in. It was so good to be home.
There anther chappie all done. Please read and review. (OO) I am watching you. JA NE
Explanations: Trista10 thank you so very much for that review! And you are right those are mistakes in the story but let me see if I can fix them in this explanation. This I actually had planed in the rough draft of the story but forgot to write it. Yes Amano was a senior and Yukari and Hitomi I think are sophomores. Three years puts them all in the same college. Second. The track teacher is the bus driver. I've seen schools that do that. (Plus it digs me out of one more hole) About them following Hitomi blindly into the wilderness...they are in shock and following her because she is the only one who knows what's going on. They can't do anything for themselves at the moment. And on the point about Merle you are so right. But I got it into my head that Merle was 15 in the series and would be 18 now so can we just pretend cat girls age differently then humans. I'm so very sorry for the mistakes. And once again Thank You So Much Trista10.
Also: I really sorry for not updating for so long. I was in Florida with no computer. But I came back and had all these wonderful reviews.
The doctors rushed into the room. Van was quickly pushed aside to make room fro medical equipment and doctors. One of his attendants ushered him out of the room towards the grand entrance of the palace.
Van fought against him he wanted to stay with Hitomi. It had taken him this long to find her again he didn't want to lose her now.
The attendant rushed him to the greeting hall where eleven people were standing. They looked nervous frightened upset and excited all at the same time.
Judging from the clothes they were wearing they weren't from around Fanelia. Vans best bet was that they were from the mystic moon.
"HEY IT"S YOU" said one red haired girl. Van looked closer and realized he had seen her before.
He had seen her the first time he had gone to the mystic moon which confirmed his suspicions.
"Where is Hitomi?" she asked with a concerned look on her face. A man came up behind her Van was startled because he looked just like Allen "You are the man she fell in love with right?"
Yukari turned around and whacked Amano over the back of the head. "Hush that's not polite to ask! Besides just because she fell in love with him doesn't mean he fell in love with her. Hitomi might not want him to know."
Van almost laughed at the thought. 'Not in love with her? More likely the other way around.' When they turned around and looked into Vans eyes they knew that he loved their friend just as much as she loved him.
Van snapped out of his shock at seeing them quickly enough. The worry came back in a wave. "Hitomi is gravely wounded" he said. The shock was apparent and immediate on the faces of her friends.
Amano strode quickly to where Van was standing and lifted him up by the front of his shirt. "We sent her to you in good health a few minutes ago and now you tell use she is hurt, you have some explaining to do."
The guards rushed forward to remove Amano from their beloved leader but Van stopped them with a wave of his hand. He had explaining to do but now wasn't the time so he gave them a very brief explanation of the events that had occurred in the last few minutes.
He turned and walked away and motioned the bewildered group to follow him. He stopped outside the room where doctors were frantically working to keep Hitomi alive. He walked into the room and went to a corner where he sat and waited.
Finally the doctors stood. "We've done all we can" one of them said grim faced. "The only way for her to live is to want to live. My suggestion is to move her to another room to rest." Van walked over to where Hitomi lay. She was deathly pale and cold. He gently picked her up and started walking down the hallway.
A small moan escaped her mouth. She opened her eyes blearily and said the seven words he had wanted to hear for a long time. "Van I want to stay with you."
Then her head slumped and she fell back into blissful unconsciousness. Amano and Yukari were close behind
Van and they heard. And despite their worry they smiled at one another because they knew their friend had found her place her love and her life.
Hitomi was in the darkest of dark places. She looked all around for anything that even resembled light but saw nothing. Then at the same time two lights appeared.
She shielded her eyes from the sudden light but when she opened them three figures met her line of vision. On one side of Hitomi was Amano and Yukari but on the other side Van was standing with his arms outstretched.
She ran towards Van but as she did Amano and Yukari moved father away. She turned to try to get them to come back but as she moved towards them Van moved away.
Then the vision changed and suddenly Hitomi was drifting over a battle scene. Van was there. So was she. But the important thing in the picture was that Escaflowne was there too.
The picture shifted again to reveal Amano and Yukari standing next to Allen on a new ship. It wasn't the Crusade. But what ship was it?
Then the picture changed one last time. The people on her track team were all in a tower. They were all scared and hungry. When she drifted over to look out the small window in the tower all she saw was black. Then as if pulled through the small window all was black again.
But this time she could hear voices through the dark. And they were talking about her.
"The only way for her to live is to want to live! Move her to a room where she can rest" Said an unrecognizable voice. She wanted to live. She did want to be with Van. And she wouldn't let a little thing like death stop her.
She gathered all her energy and opened her eyes. "Van I want to stay with you." Then the blackness engulfed her again and she started on the long struggle back to the light.
Van set Hitomi down gently on the bed. He smiled just a little bit. Hitomi would pull through this he knew. Once she had her mind set on something she wouldn't ever let anything get in her way.
The doctor had said something about rest and he planned to give it to her. He would sit very quietly at the end of her bed and wait. Or at least that was the plan. But that plan was soon interrupted.
One of the people Hitomi brought with her came up to him. It was a boy and he like the rest of the people looked panicked.
'Wait a minute. Correct that thought. Those two over there don't look panicked they look happy." He thought looking at Amano and Yukari. They stood silently in a corner holding each other with small smiles on their faces.
The boy was forgotten during his thought processes but his attention was returned as the boy spoke up in a small quivering voice. "Can you get us home?"
Anger started inside of Van. This boy's friend was almost dying and he wanted to go home. But as soon as he said that all of the people except the two in the corner started wailing.
'Those are the people I've met before.' He thought while looking at them. Once again his attention was turned to the louder group.
"Yes" one of them cried "Take us home." Van sighed. Hitomi wasn't going to get any rest with these people wailing like this. 'Oh well. I might as well return them home the same way I did Hitomi. It's about time I visited Folken's grave anyway.'
Van stood up sharply. "Follow me" he said softly so as not to disturb Hitomi. 'It's not like it makes a difference at this point" he thought. He started on the short walk to Folken's grave. The track members following behind silently still too shocked to say or do much.
At Folken's grave he immediately went to the small alter in front of it. It had been erected a short time after Hitomi left to store the energist. It could only be opened with the pendent Hitomi had given him.
He grasped the small item in his hands. It was the only thing that had really sustained him these past three years. He opened it quickly and pulled out the energist.
"Everyone gather rounded if you want to go home." He called to the group. The result was startling. Most of the track team surged forward and almost trampled him on the desire to get as close as possible.
Three people stayed behind. The oldest one of the group apparently the leader stayed back looking hesitant.
"What's wrong?" Van asked him. He replied "I don't really want to leave any of my students here. Maybe we should wait for Hitomi to come back with us." Van smiled inwardly. The man didn't know how long he would be waiting.
"Hitomi is staying here with me." He said with a confidence that he hadn't had in three years. The teacher was on his last nerve and that confidence in Van's voice was enough to convince him to go home. He walked over to the group and huddled with the rest of the students.
Van now set his sights on the other two. Amano and Yukari stood behind the alter. "What's wrong with you two? He asked.
Yukari spoke up first "We are her best friends and there is no way in hell we are leaving without saying goodbye. We will go later when Hitomi is up and about and after the wedding." Van blushed slightly at hearing the word wedding. Amano had opened his mouth to say something when Yukari had interrupted. Now he silently closed it. His girlfriend had quite literally taken the words from his mouth.
Van openly smiled at them. "Any friend of Hitomi's is a friend of mine." He said. He held the energist aloft and the light shot down from the sky. "Just like three years ago." He muttered to himself.
All of the group except for himself moved upward along the beam. When they were almost out of sight though a terrible thing happened. A shadow moved across the light. And the outline of a guymeleff was seen on the ground. When the shadow passed they were all gone.
Amano and Yukari looked up t the sky in shock. All their friends had just disappeared when they were about to disappear. But this time they doubted they were going anywhere pleasant.
Van had a decision to make. He might be able to save them. If he just put the energist in Escaflowne.
He didn't want to. Escaflowne symbolized killing and pain.
But! If these last few hours were the indication of anything that would come he wouldn't have a choice. First the poison now this. He made his mind up.
'Anything for my kingdom and my love!' He thrust the energist into Escaflowne and hopped into the cockpit once more.
So many memories flooded back to him. Memories he had tried to forget. He had no choice now; it was too late to back out. He would save them. Because that is what Hitomi would want him to do.
Amano and Yukari were left standing as the man they knew as Van got inside a giant robot and took off after their friends.
There wasn't much they could do but wait. And wait they did. But no one was coming back. Then when they were starting to get fed up with waiting a blond haired man that looked almost exactly like ...Amano walked down the path.
Yukari and Amano stared and so did the look alike.
"What the hell is going on?" Shouted two voices at the exact same time.
Hitomi struggled through the blackness. She had to stop her friends from being taken away.
She had to tell Van that seen the Escaflowne being used again.
She had to tell him how she felt and that she was sorry for leaving. She saw a small light and she fought her way to it.
Then she was free. She opened her eyes and looked around the room that Van had left her in. It was so good to be home.
There anther chappie all done. Please read and review. (OO) I am watching you. JA NE