Van: The Boy from the Mystic Moon
So is everybody this lonely when they're in love?
They'll hold onto pain deeper than the shadows?
It's all to make us shine, I just know it…
I love you,
I love you,
I gaze at you with my heart…
I believe in you,
I believe in you,
Even on the coldest of nights.
I call out to you with my tears,
But I don't need any promises…
That's the precious strength you've given to me…
Epilogue:
Was it all just a dream? Or a vision? No it all really happened, all right. It all began on the day I asked the tarot cards if I'd ever find love.
Chapter 1: Fateful Confession-See ya!
-Bye!
-See ya later!
-Sure!
School had just ended, and everyone was headed home excapt those who had after school programs.
"Ready!" yelled the track coach.
"Hey Van! Do a reading for me!" Yelled one of his classmates.
"Maybe later!" was his reply
Down on the track sat a short brown hared boy, "Geez, where the heck is he?"
"Practice is starting Van!" called some one else, as said boy ran passed.
"I know, I know!"
"Okay! Next!" called the coach
The black hared boy jumped down a flight of stairs, and ran over to where the his friend was. "Damn it Van! You're late! Late big time! When a member of the track team shows up late for practice, it's the manager -me- that gets yelled at! Got it?"
"Sorry, Amano! I got hung up working on my term paper." Van made a face, "So, did miss the girls' time trials?"
"Aw, for crying out loud… This next one's the last. Your object d'drool is in this one." Teased Amano.
"Captain Yukari…" sighed Van when he saw the red-hared girl settle down into her starting blocks.
"Ready!" Called the coach, and fired the starting gun. At the sound of the gun, the girls all stated running, and Amano started his stopwatch. Yukari got ahead of the others, and crossed the finish line well before any of the others.
"10.64 seconds… Van, she's awsome! Awsome! Yukari beat 11 seconds! She's incredible!" said Amano with enthusiasm.
The coach called over to the sidelines where the rest of the boys' team was stretching, "Okay, we're gonna do the guys' times next!"
"Coming!" was the group's reply.
"Van?" asked the brunet, as Van just stood there still looking at his 'object d'drool.' So he did the only thing that would snap his long time friend out of his daze, he pantsed him, reviling his shorts under his track pants.
"Dude! What's the big idea!" hissed Van, who stared to go red in the checks, and by reflex tried to cover up.
"Get your butt out there."
"All right already!" he took off the rest of his tracksuit, and headed out onto the track. He stretched, and silently asked his lucky pendent for luck and a good run.
"Ready!"
"Go for it Van!" cheered Amano, as his friend erupted from the starting blocks. Van was gaining a lead when it came, a vision.
What's going on…? It's hot… The wind's hot… he thought
He opened hiseyes to find everything on fire. Two giants were fighting each other with swords. One was a magnificent white.
Then the vision shifted. He was in a room. Like one that you would see in a old time movie."Are you ready Princess Hitomi?" Said a huge man with many battle scares, one went right over one of his eyes, completely closing that eye.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Said a girl with sandy-blond hair.
"I'm sure you'll be able to slay the dragon, Princess Hitomi. Keep your brother's disgrace from your mind." Continued the man. The girl flinched like the man had slapped her so something.
"Enough, Balgus. I'll never show my back to an enemy." Snapped the girl.
Then the vision ended.
Van woke up to find himself in the nurses' room. "Yukari… Captain Yukari? Where-"
"You should stay in bed." Came her smooth reply.
"I'm sorry…" he whispered, like it was his fault that he fainted.
"I'm just glad you weren't hurt." She said with obvious relief.
"Um… Thanks."
"Your form is almost perfect, Kanzaki. You've been practicing your heart out since junior high to do it."
"Nah, I haven't even broken 13 seconds… I wish I could run as fast as you, Yukari."
"I think it's all about when you come off the blocks. You focus everything you've got and launch yourself forward."
"Focus everything…?" he asked.
"Yeah. Hey, that's a nice pendant."
"Oh, this? It's a good luck charm, I got it from my grandmother. It's quite interesting actually, when you swing it like this it acts like a pendulum clock completing every cycle never slowing down."
"Can I try it?" she asked, truly interested.
"One…" counted Van, as Yukari turned to face the clock on the far wall.
"Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight…"Yukari counted.
""Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, sevent-"" the two said in unison as the pendant swung to the beat of the clock.
"Kanzaki, the truth is, I…I…" started Yukari, turning back around to face Van, placing her hands on the bed.
"Van! I brought your duffel!" Amano called cheerfully then caught sight of the two.
"Amano…! Come on, Amano! Say something, Amano!" pleaded Van, as the two friends were walking home.
"I think that I can let it slide for a Yuugrtsudo strawberry rice cake. And some Kamakuraya cheesecake, a Shounan-Honpo been jam pancake, and some Gelat Classic peppermint ice cream, oh and maybe a different desert every day. I think that'll do it." Amano listed.
"Come on, I didn't collapse on purpose okay!"
"Oh, really? I bet you're wondering if something… Would've happened if I hadn't shown up, jerk." Teased Amano, "Van? Have you ever done a reading for you and Yukari?"
"No"
"Why not?" inquired Amano.
"Well, what if it said that it wouldn't work out?"
"Oh, but if you really like her…"
"What's wrong, Amano?" wondered Van. The two had stopped under a bridge.
"Look, Van… I overheard some of the upper-class girls talking, they were saying that… that Yukari might be leaving the country! She might not be coming to the perfectural track meet! So… Look I know how you feel about her, Van… you should tell her. You'll regret it if you don't. I know that you'll regret it if you don't… Kanzaki."
"Van? Van, the bath's ready! Van?" Called Van's mother from the bottom of the stairs. Van was in his room doing a reading…
"The Tower, the card of distant separation… No…! Yukari's leaving the country! I'll never see her again! The Ace of Serpents…? Courage?"
"I'm sorry that I won't be run with you in the meet, but I know you'll do great! I'll be waiting to hear the good news over there." Said Yukari to some of her track buddies. It was Friday, only girl's practice went long.
"Write us when you get there, okay, Yukari?" asked one friend.
"Sure"
"Don't forget us!" demanded another.
"No Way!" agreed Yukari.
"Captain Yukari! Yukari! Yukari! Yukari! Yukari! Yukari!" chanted her friends.
"Captain Yukari! Yukari…I…I'd like to ask a favor of you, If…" panted Van, who had just ran to catch the captain of the track team. It was late the sun was getting close too setting, and Yukari was headed home for supper. "If I can run 100 meters in the time… it takes this pendent," he held out the pendant, "to swing thirteen times… if I break the thirteen second barrier… I'd-like-you-to-give-me-my-first-kiss!"
"Don't regret saying that," warned Yukari.
"Thank you!"
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DISCLAIMER: if you haven't figured it out by now that I do NOT own any of this I shall tell you: I DON'T OWN ESCAFLOWNE, THE SONGS, OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, so there. I'm just having fun messing around with the characters.
The idea to re-watch the series and write down what everybody says then switch some of the people around was actually my sister's (mysisterthinksimasquijum) idea.
A/N: Don't worry I am still going to write Escaflowne 2: hitomi's return. Oh, and if u haven't guessed by now all the last names are being rearranged to fit properly.(cause we can't really have a princess Hitomi Kanzaki from Fanelia) This is based on the subbed version of Escaflowne (much easier to write down what they say). So I know that some things will just sound weird. So just go with it ok?
Well that should be enough rambling for today…
Cheers!
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"Kanzaki! Are you ready?" Called Yukari from the end of the 100m track.
"Yes! Any time you are!" was his reply. Suddenly the lights turned on, "Amano."
'Focus everything you've got, and launch yourself forward' Yukari silently coached.
"Focus" Van reminded himself.
"GO!" Yukari called and let the pendent swing. "Seven…" she counted "eight-" suddenly a column of white light appeared on the track right in Van's path. A lonely figure dressed in strange armor landed in the middle of the light. Then the light vanished.
Van couldn't stop. He ran right into the figure, and then fell down on the track.
"Who the hell are you?" demanded the stranger "Wha- where am I?" Van looked up and saw that the person who had come from the pillar of light was a girl. She had short sandy blond hair, and piercing emerald green eyes.
"Kanzaki!" Yukari cried in alarm.
"Van! Are you okay, Van? Van?" inquired Amano, who had come to help Van up.
"That girl… that's the girl that I saw in my dream!" was Van's astonished reply.
"Hey! Who the-" Yukari started to command but was cut off by the girl.
"Don't take that tone with me!"
"No, we're not people from the demon world!" Van told the new girl.
"Van?" asked a puzzled Amano.
"Anyway who the heck are you?" Van asked the girl.
"Hitomi of Fanelia." was her answer "Where am I?"
"What?" asked Van.
"Van? You can under stand what he's saying?" Amano wanted to know.
"Then he's probably coming too…" Hitomi said to no one in particular. "Get away boy! A land dragon is coming!"
"A dragon?" questioned Van.
"Get moving! Do you wonna get eaten by that dragon!" the girl shouted as she took a defensive potion and raising her sword, as if there was an opponent down the track.
"Now look here, pal…" Yukari started but then there was another pillar of white light, but bigger this time. "It's happening again…"
"What?" asked Amano as he turned to see the pillar, "Now what's coming? Van?"
"I don't feel so good… I think that I'm gonna throw up…"
"Here it comes." Said the girl, Hitomi. A large rip stood where the light once was and a creature that was the size of a one-story house crawled out on its four legs. Its scales were a mixture of brown and black, its' eyes were a sickening yellow with a black slight, and at the end of its ten-foot long tail was a poisonous spick.
"What the Hell is that?" pondered Yukari.
"Van!" cried Amano who was very concerned about his friend's condition.
The dragon spotted the three teens, and started towards them.
"Over here! You were fighting me, remember!" Hitomi tautened the dragon, seeing that it was going after the defenseless group. "What's the matter! You're hungry aren't you! C'omon and eat me!" she pulled a cross-bow and arrow from her weapon's belt and shot the dragon's left eye. The dragon screamed with an ear-piercing scream that made the three teens cover their ears, in an attempt to black out the sound. The dragon then collapsed to the ground. "Is it dead?" the knight-like girl asked while stepping closer to the dragon. The dragon opened it's eye and struck the girl in the gut with its tail, sending the girl flying backwards. The force was so strong that the girl's last meal was forced out of her and on to the ground. She wiped the bile from her face and stated, "So it wounds its prey and finishes it off later…" She then noticed the strange boy who had run into her still standing there staring at the dragon like he had never seen one before. "Get out of here, boy! Hurry! Get out of here!"
Realizing that the girl had a point Van turned to the others, "Come on! Let's head for the mountain!"
"Hurry!" Yukari pleaded. So the three ran as fast as they could towards the mountain as they could.
"Yukari!" Amano called out when he noticed that the captain of their track team had fallen.
"Ow…"
"It must be twisted." He declared after taking a brief look at it. "Climb onto my back."
"Amano…" she said a little touched.
"Let's go." He said to Van whom had stopped to watch.
"Right behind you!" Van told him.
The dragon's attention was caught by the three fleeing figures and so started to give chase. "Damn!" the girl swore, seeing that the dragon decided that it wanted an easier meal. "You're not getting away from me!" she pulled out a claw-hook and grabbed hold of the dragon as it ran after the others.
The trio had made it up to the temple that was halfway up the maintain, which was a very popular spot among their classmates during the spring time festivals. "I think that we'll be safe up here." Amano said, half trying to convince the other two, half trying to convince himself, as he gently set Yukari down to take a better look at her injury.But no sooner did those words escape his mouth that the dragon leaped over their heads and landed in front of them, blocking off the path.
The girl, Hitomi, landed between the group and the dragoon, but off to the side. "Hey! Over here!" she yelled hoping to gain the dragon's attention yet again, and attacked the giant lizard seeing that the female of the group was injured.
"Kanzaki!" Yukari yelled, seeing that the raven hared boy was standing too close to the battlefield.
"Coming!"
"This sword just won't cut through those scales!" Hitomi vented.
"I wonder if she's going to be okay…" pondered Yukari when it seemed that the other girl wasn't gaining any ground.
Then it happened again… Van saw -yet didn't see- the dragon lift it's tail like a scorpion would, then plunge it into the girl. "She's going to die…she's gonna die!" not wanting that to happen Van raced over to where the battle was happening.
"Kanzaki?" Yukari asked, not really knowing how he would know something like that.
The dragon's tail was in position; he knew that he only had seconds before the blade at the end of the tail would be plunged into the girl, "Look out! Above you!" he yelled.
She looked up in time to see the deadly tip start to be hurled at her, as she jumped back, narrowly escaping certain death. "Now!" she yelled, seeing her opportunity to cut into the softer underbelly. She jumped up and over the creature, and sliced down it's tail, issuing a spray of a greeny-blue colour blood, and an surreal cry from the dragon. Hitomi then ran around to the front of the dragon and cut into it's chest, revealing more blood which splattered all over her. The dragon then toppled over, due to the lack of blood in it's system, and the girl then cut perpendicular to the first, exposing what appeared to be the heart sack. She then cut open the sack and pulled out a round, palm sized, pink crystal. The dragon's body and blood then started to evaporate leaving no trace of its existence, unless of course you counted all the damage it had caused.
"Um…Are you okay?" Van asked the girl.
"I'm not so bad off that I need a man to worry for me." She eyed him boldly. "Let me guess, you want a reward. Fine. Come to my castle then. But don't get too cocky. It'd be an apology for involving you and your friends in the dragon slaying…You didn't help me kill that dragon you know." She spat.
"What's with the high and mighty routine!" Asked Van taken back by her words. "I did what I did because I thought you were going to die! The least you could do is say 'thanks' alright?" seeing that she wasn't going to change her mind Van continued, "You know what, I shouldn't have saved you! I should have let that dragon eat you!" with that said he turned around and marched over to where Amano and Yukari were. He quietly asked Yukari if he could have his pendant back, and stuck it in his pocket.
The crystal in Hitomi's hand then began to glow, "The energist…It's…" she trailed off when a pillar of light engulfed her.
"What the-" Amano started, seeing both the strange girl and his best friend being engulfed in light. "Van!" he called, catching his friend's attention. Then Van started to float off the ground! "VAN!"
"Amano!" Van cried, as he was now several meters off the ground. They both reached out their hands but found that Van was too high. Then both he and the girl disappeared.
"Kanzaki!" Yukari cried after him, "They disappeared…"
"Van? Van?" Amano called into the night, hoping against the odds that the boy had landed somewhere near by.
But no one answered.
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They had landed in I field of grass, Van not expecting such a rough landing, fell head over heels, while the girl named Hitomi managed to land on her feet. "I made it…" she said, after looking around a little.
"What did you--"Van started to accuse, but cut himself off when he saw something truly frightening. "The Earth…? How come I can see the Earth?"
"We're near the village of Arzas." Hitomi explained.
"'Arzas?'" Van asked, not
having heard the name before, and they soon found them selves to be
surrounded.
The card of separation and the Ace of Serpents…
Now I understood what they really meant.
Blue Searchlights meet beyond the moon…
Yeah my angel who came flying down,
Who are you?
The doors of destiny are opening before us…
So let's just fall in love.
I can't break free of this moment
That's making my heart flutter…
Don't stop baby!
Your mystic eyes are setting me on fire.
Your innocent smile breakin' me down…
With this unstoppable pounding in my heart…
And I wanna swoop down and take you with me!