Hey people! I'm back. I went
on vacation to Dallas! It was lots of fun.
I need a lab top so I can type in the car, but oh well. This chapter will
probably be the longest so far. So on with the show or story or whatever.
Remember to review it when you are done. Thanx.
Disclaimer: I don't own
Escaflowne, just like before.
Chapter 3 A Reunion and a
Warning
By. Lady Emerald
Hitomi woke up to the sound
of running water nearby.
"I must have hit my head and
passed out," she thought. "Where am I?"
She looked up into the night
sky and saw two moons. She smiled to herself.
"I'm back!" she said
excitedly when she realized that the Earth or Mystic Moon, as they called it on
Geae, was in the sky above her. She tried to sit up, but her head was pounding
and would not let her sit up.
"Oh, ouch! That really
hurts," She muttered.
After a while she got up,
very slowly because her head still hurt a little. She looked around and saw a
beautiful landscape all around her. She also saw a little stream and decided to
wash up a bit. Later, she decided, she would try and find Fanelia. First,
though, she would rest. She sat on a large rock and gave a big sigh as she
looked around again. The little stream was outlined by rocks of every shape and
size, trees bordered the little clearing, and covered the hills that rose above
the valley.
"It
is simply beautiful, just beautiful." She said.
"Where is she?" Van said
getting really frustrated. He gave a heavy sigh and urged his horse on. He and
his horse were getting tired, thirsty, and hungry. He heard the sound of running water nearby and headed towards the
sound. As he entered the little clearing, he dismounted, and started to lead
his horse towards the tiny stream.
Then he saw a female figure
sitting on one of the larger rocks. She looked like a beautiful water nymph
watching the twin moons rise, from what he could see from the side of her. She
had long sandy brown hair that was in a long braid, down her back, with a pink
ribbon at the end. She had on a long white skirt with thin pink strips of cloth
hung from the waist. A simple white sleeveless top finished the outfit off. She
was gorgeous.
"Excuse me, Miss, are you
lost?" He asked her.
She instantly jumped up off
the rock and turned towards him. Two clear emerald eyes were staring at him
with surprise.
"Htiomi!" was all he could
get out.
"When?! When can we bring
her here?"
"The savior can only be
brought here at the right time, Lord."
"Yes, that is what I have
been hearing! I want to know when! I want to see her in person, not on your
little screen that we have been watching for the past year!"
"The time is right, Lord,
when her "Earth" and the smallest moon hang above the western mountains that
surround Fanelia."
"Where are they position
now?"
"In the eastern sky, Lord."
" In the east! That means that
it will take at least four more days!"
"Patience, Lord, patience."
"Master, one of the servants
has fled to Geae to reveal our plans."
"It does not matter. He will
not live long enough to tell them much. Even if he does there is no way they
can protect her or stop us." He said with an evil smile and an even eviler
laugh.
Hitomi hadn't heard him till
he said something. He had scared her so much that she jumped off the rock
nearly slipping on the slimly moss that was on the ground. She turned to face him
and she knew who he was.
"Van?!" she cried.
She eyed him. He looked
older, of course, wiser, and a lot more muscular. He still had on the same red
shirt with his tan pants. Oh yes, he much more handsome then the last time she
had seen him and, yet, he still had those loving and knowing brown eyes.
She ran into his arm and he
held her tight never wanting to let her go. She was sobbing into his shirt.
"Shh, it is alright.
Everything is ok." He cooed her, slowly rocking her back and forth. "Lets get
you back to the castle."
"Ok. Van," she said after a
few seconds when he got his horse, which had eaten and drank from the stream, "
I have missed you so much."
"And I you. Welcome back."
He said as he placed her on the horse. He wanted to just hold her and kiss her
and tell her that he loved her, but at the same time couldn't.
They rode through the forest
just listening to the other breathe. Hitomi gave a little shiver as a gentle
breeze went by.
"Are you cold?" Van asked
worried that she might catch a cold.
"No, it was nothing," she
saw him give he a "I don't believe that" look. "Really, I am fine." She
reassured him.
Just then something fell
from one of the nearby trees spooking the horse. It reared up as Van tried to
get control. Hitomi slid off the horse to see of what ever had fallen from the
tree was ok. Van finally got control of the horse, slid off, and tied it to a
tree. Hitomi approached the man that had landed on the ground. When he saw her
he grabbed her by the wrist and she gave a little scream. Van saw this and ran
to her side.
"What is wrong with this
guy? What does he want?" was what both Hitomi and Van were thinking.
"Run away, please, stay away
from him. Heed my warning. He does you no good, Lady." The man croaked.
"Who are you? What do mean
get away? I just got here." Hitomi said now a little frightened.
"Yes, yes. Tell us man what
do you mean?" Van's voice came out strong and demanding because this man still
had Hitomi by the wrist.
"I came here to warn you
that there is someone," he was having a very hard time talking, "out… to get…
you… Princess Hitomi."
Then he let go of her wrist
and fell over, dead. Hitomi gave a little scream and buried her head in Van's
chest. He was in shock at what the man had just said. Someone was after Hitomi?
How can that be? We are at peace? What was going on? Every question he had just
led to another question. He picked Hitomi up and put her back on the horse.
Then he went over and moved the man to the side of the road. All of a sudden
the man's body started to smoke.
"Just like when Van killed
that dragon when I first met him," Hitomi thought.
Then the dust that was left
over from the "burnt" body, blew away in the breeze. Hitomi shuttered as Van
got back onto the horse and started on their way again.
"Are you ok?" Van asked
still concerned that something else might happen.
"Yes, I am fine as long as
know that you are here beside me." She blushed after she relized what she had
just said.
"I will always be here and I
will protect you." Then it was his turn to blush.
"I know," was all she said
as she snuggled closer to him.
He smiled to himself, he was
so happy that she was back WITH him and safe.
END OF CHAPTER
Ok maybe it was a little weird,
but o well. I will try and the next 1 or 2 chapters up by the end of next week.
So until then, ta ta.
