Fanelia Four Years Later
My first fanfic! Please read and review (and enjoy, I hope) – I think the title says enough. Possibly VxH…but Dilandau comes in somewhere
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne – or any of its original characters. And I'm still not sure whether I'll make any new characters of my own.
Chapter 1: An introduction to Dilandau's dilemma
This is going to be a really short chapter, but things might get better as I update :)
Dilandau buried his head in his arms. This was not one of his better days, seeing that he was Dilandau and not Celena. He was about to start one of his infamous tantrums when Merle walked, no, pounced on to him from the windowsill where she had just magically appeared.
"OWWWWWWWWW! What the hell's your problem?" Dilandau screeched.
"Oh, you've turned back into the narcissistic brat you used to be, haven't you?" Merle commented. "Well, that's okay. If you were Celena, I'd have warned you stay ten miles away from Lord Van" Merle took a good look at the silver-haired nineteen-year-old. It had been four years since the events of the Destiny War, four years since Hitomi left Gaea. Quite a few things had happened since then.
Allen and Celena/Dilandau were visiting Fanelia. Celena, unfortunately, had the tendency to turn into Dilandau every now and then. For this reason, Van decided to keep the male's pyromaniac properties in check by keeping Celena/Dilandau tailed by Fanelian guards whenever possible. Celena wasn't too bothered about this. Dilandau, on the other hand, was. They wouldn't even let him light candles, saying instead, "Er, let me do that for you, Lady Cel…er, Lord Dilandau." It was extremely annoying.
Allen agreed to the extra security. Since he was Van's close friend (though a rival in other ways), he trusted Van not to hold any real grudges against his…sibling. After all, the security was important. Dilandau did burn Fanelia down to nothing four years ago, and a repeat of that offense was not desirable.
Allen was twenty-five now. Still the Asturian knight he used to be, he continued carrying out his duties. However, when he asked to go on vacation to Fanelia a few too many times, Millerna, the Queen of Asturia decided that she might as well make Allen an ambassador, and send him to Fanelia 'on business'. Allen's visits to Fanelia became so frequent that Van decided to give him and his sibling permanent house-space. Allen was even considering becoming a dual knight-citizen on Asturia and Fanelia.
Dryden was King of Asturia only in a manner of speaking – he spent most of his time neglecting his royal duties, working on useless inventions in the basement of the castle.
Nobody really wondered why Allen found Fanelia so appealing. It was obvious. If there was any place on Gaea that would be home for a certain honey-brown haired girl, it was Fanelia. Everyone who had been involved in the Destiny War was waiting for Hitomi's return. Merle looked forward to Hitomi's return – Hitomi's was practically a sister to her. Merle only accepted this when she realized that she'd have to accept Van as an elder brother figure and nothing more. Allen had a fondness for Hitomi, similar to his feelings for his sister Celena, with a slight difference. Hitomi could never be Allen's brother.
Van wanted Hitomi to return. It had been four years, and the most he ever got out of their long-distance relationship was a glimpse of her every now and then. When he did see her, he was happy. When he didn't, he mentally beat himself up for never having proven his true manhood to her. But, thankfully, the last few years of rebuilding his country kept him occupied. Soon it would be over, and then he's have tp turn his mind to other matters. Anyways, he had already set aside a suite for Hitomi, right next to his own. It was rather larger then the one he had given Celena/Dilandau.
Celena spent most of her time clinging to her elder brother, not saying much at all, and becoming very irritated at her previous behaviour while in her random forays into maleness. But she listened patiently whenever Allen and the others talked about her. Celena was sure that she'd like this Hitomi character. Hitomi seemed to be a cool person, what with her long jumping antics, and saving planets that were not her own.
Her other half knew a lot more about Hitomi. Dilandau, however, would have preferred having Van to himself.
Merle looked at Dilandau. She didn't have much of an objection to Celena really – in fact, Celena was somewhat ordinary, and truth to tell, a little dumb. The occasions when Celena transformed into Dilandau were much more amusing. Merle adored bugging him.
Merle considered what she had said earlier, and corrected herself, "On second thought, I'd better tell you to stay away from Lord Van anyway." She smirked and hopped out of the window.
Dilandau scowled.
This is my first fanfiction ever! I'm so proud of myself – for reasons I'm not even sure of now. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this, and I'll try to update, though I have a feeling that the next few weeks (possibly even months) are going to be busy, what with flights, college dorm move-ins, orientation work and classes. I'm stressed out already. Particularly about tomorrow's flight.
As for Escaflowne itself, I've just been introduced to it last month, and I've only watched the first seven episodes (though I should be getting my box set of the series in the next four days) – I know what's going to happen because I, like an idiot, decided to give into my weaknesses and looked at the scripts online. I can't wait to see them though.
I'd better be off now, need to finish the last bit of packing for my flight tomorrow.– thanks to my sister who's been beta-ing my work and putting in interesting suggestions here and there. :)