Hello. I'm back with ch. 5.
I changed to rating b/c of language and other things that won't be named pacifically.
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chapter 5.
Disclaimer: No, just like
before, I don't own any part of Escaflowne.
Chapter 5 The Rescue
By. Lady Emerald
Van saw Hitomi sway and
caught her just before she hit the ground.
"Hitomi! Hitomi!' Van yelled
as he tried to shake her awake.
"Van, stop it. You might
hurt her!" Allen and Melerna said with concern.
" We should put her in a
room where she can rest and I can take a look at her." Melerna said.
"Way ahead of you. I have a
room ready next to yours, Lord Van." Merle piped up.
Van nodded and he lifted
Hitomi up and took her to the room. He placed her on a bed, that felt like you
were laying in a big pile of feathers. Then he stepped a side so Melerna could have a look at her. Melerna
examined her and then examined her a again.
"Well?" Van said being as impassionate
as he is, "What is wrong with her?"
When she turned around she
had a confused face on.
"From what I can tell, she
isn't sick."
"That is good." Said Allen.
"The bad news is that I think
that she is in the Dream World."
"What!" Everyone one said
together.
"Wait, how can that be? No one
ever goes there unless they want to, which isn't very often." Van said.
Everyone stared at the
ground, not saying anything. They knew that very often, when some one entered
the Dream World, that they died. If they died in the Dream World they would die
in the real world too.
"I am going to help her."
Van finally said sternly.
"No, you can't. If you die,
there is no one to take the throne." Allen tried to argue.
"I know, but that is a
chance I will have to take."
"Then let me come to." Allen
said.
"Fine, just don't get lost.
We don't know what Hitomi has in that head of hers."
"Wait! I think there is
something else you should know before you go." Melerna cried out.
"What is it?" Van asked now getting
antsy.
"I think that Hitomi was taken
there against her will. Which means that there is some one else in there with
her. So be alert."
"What!" They cried out in
awe.
Then Van put two and two
together.
"When we were coming back to
the castle, Hitomi and I encountered a man. He said that there was some one out
to get Hitomi. Maybe this is what he meant." Van said looking at the others.
"If that is true," Allen
said, "then we better get in there fast."
Van nodded in agreement. He
and Allen went over and stood next to Hitomi sleeping figure. Van took off the
pendent and held it out in front of them. It started to glow and them, both of
them collaped atop Hitomi.
"We might as well make them
comfortable, too." Dryden said.
He
signaled Gaddes to he them move Van and Allen next to Hitomi on the bed.
"Where… where am I?" Hitomi
asked herself. She rubbed her temples
"What happened?" Hitomi
jumped in surprise.
Van and Allen were laying on
the floor, if that is what you call since everything was black, trying to get
up.
"Van? Allen? What is going
on?"
They saw her for the first
time as she spoke.
"Well," Van said, "we were
talking outside and then you fell. Melerna took a look at you and said were in
the Dream World. So here we are. Now we have to find a way out of here."
"What is the Dream World?"
she asked trying to look around.
"It is a place in your mind,
that few people…" Allen stopped as he felt a foot go down on his. He shot Van a
look. Then he understood, there was no need for Hitomi to know that few people
ever got out alive or even got out period.
"Well, little princess, it
looks like we have company." Came the cold voice again.
"Who are you?" Van yelled.
"You will soon find out. You
will not know, however, what I really look like. For everything here is
different from the real world."
Van and Allen stood on both
side of Hitomi to keep he safe from who ever had brought her here. Then everything
around them changed. They were now standing inside what looked like a bedroom.
There was a stone fireplace along on wall and a big puffy bed with white sheet
in it. There were books and chairs and a table around the rest of the room.
There was also a big red rug in the middle of the floor.
All of a sudden two pairs of
chains came and attached themselves to Van and Allen's wrists and ankle pulling
them again the wall.
"Van! Allen!" Hitomi cried.
The fire then flared out
towards her reminding her of her vision.
"Is this what it was warning
me about? This is all my fault." She thought.
She fell to her knees,
crying. All of a sudden she stopped, there was a hand going up and down her
back. She looked around to see who was doing it. No one to her left, but when
she looked to the right to clear blue eyes were staring straight back at her.
"Shh… Come to me." He whispered
in her ear.
"What? Who are you?" she
asked softly.
They were talking just loud
enough for Van and Allen to hear.
"Come to me and all your
fear and sorrow will be wiped away."
She just stared at him. He
was about a year older than herself and Van, with dark brown hair that hung in his
eyes.
"Like Van's hair." She thought
to herself.
He had on black pants with a
white shirt, and a long flowing dark blue cape. His eyes were mixed though. She
could not tell if they were kind or evil and cold. He helped her up and for the
first time heard Van and Allen yelling at the man. She didn't look at them,
just into the man's dark blue eyes.
"This is so weird. I want to
look away, but it is like I can't. Does he have some kind of powers that make
me look at him? What is going on." Hitomi thought.
"Hitomi," Came a soft voice.
"Grandma?"
"Hiotmi, this is your mind. Don't
let him take control of it. You can do anything you want here. Save your
friends and get out of here."
Then she faded away from
view. No one had seen her, but Hitomi. Hitomi then realized that she was on her
back, on the bed, with this strange man getting ready to bed her.
"Hitomi, snap out of it!"
Allen shouted at her.
"Get off of her you monster!"
was Van's lovely comment.
She then felt some thing on
her neck. She looked down and saw that the man was kissing her neck.
"No," she murmured.
He just ignored her and kept
going.
"No!" she yelled." Get off of me!"
She pushed him off and got
to her feet. The man looked at her in astonishment. Then his eyes changed like
a wild beast's eyes hungry, hungry for her.
"No! Stay away from me! I
will not let you control me! This is my mind and I am in control!" She yelled at him.
Suddenly the chains that
bond Van and Allen disappeared and new chains bond the man.
"Come to me. Neither of your
so-called worlds is where you belong. You belong with me at my side." He told
her.
"I don't think so." Said Van
as he and Allen came to stand next to her.
"There is no way you or
anyone for that matter can protect her. She will came to me freely or be taken
by force." The man's voice was now like steel. Then he vanished leaving just he
chains behind. They all gave a sigh of relief. He was gone, for now.
"How do we get out of here
again?" Hitomi asked.
Van held up the pendent
that she had given him. She looked at him in adoration.
"You kept it." She said
quietly.
"Ya, why would I get rid of
it?"
"I don't know." She said
looking at her feet.
"Ok, can we get out of here
now?" Allen asked.
"Why don't you like it
inside my head?" Hitomi said with a smile.
He just smiled back.
"How come I let her go? That
was so stupid of me." Allen thought to himself.
"Ready?" Van asked.
Both
of them nodded. He held up the pendent and concentrated. Then a white light
enveloped them.
"Damn it! I was so close. Then
those two had to start yelling! Ah! This is so irritating!" He screamed passing
the room.
"King, please settle down.
It will only be three more days till the time is right."
"Can I enter her dreams again?"
"No, Lord, that only works
once."
He growled and nodded, sitting down heavily in his chair.
"Very
well."
"Wait I think that are
coming around." Melerna cried as she saw the three on the large bed start to
move.
Allen and Van were the
first to wake up. Allen, who was on the end, got up and went over to talk to
Gaddes, Melerna, and Dryden. Van stayed next to Hitomi until she opened her eyes.
"Mmm… Van?" she asked a
little confused on what had just happened./
"Yes? We made it out safe
if that is what you were wondering." He answered.
She nodded and sat up. Her
and Van walked over to Merle who instantly hugged them both.
"I am so happy that you
guys are ok!" She laughed.
"You sure haven't changed
much." Hitomi said laughing.
Merle just stuck out her
tongue. Hitomi took a big breath.
"It fells good to be back."
She said.
By now everyone was in a
big circle.
"How long are you going to
be with us this time, Hitomi?" Asked Dryden.
"As long as you will have
me." She said with a big smile.
"Forever." Van thought
END OF CHAPTER
Ok that was really long to type and probably read. Next chapter you will meet this mysterious man. Thanks for reading. Buh bye.
