To Tame a Beast
Yes, I know, I know, your all going, 'Why the hell is the title in jap?!!' and yes I went over this one before, there is a secret behind Rei.well there is a lot of secrets behind Rei, and no before you all jump the gun, like I said before Rei is from Gaea, but someone who had a great influence on her live isn't, who you're all gonna have to wait maybe.. Depending on how nice I get
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne (wish I did though, and if I did there would be a sequel, with a happier ending.. and Dilly-kuns would be back, and a BOY!), nor do I own the song Shiawase wa Tsumi no Nioi; I am just kidnapping it for a while.. cuz I needed it
'word' - poem/song
Chpt. 8 Shiawase wa Tsumi no Nioi
The sunlight that seeped through the dark blue curtains, waking her from the restless sleep, head pounding slowly. Groaning she rolled over onto her back to stare up at the metal ceiling. Her body was soar and stiff, without looking she knew there were burses along her arms and torso. Turning to the right slightly, she could see that the boys had already been up for a while and were long gone. Rei sat up slowly on the hard bed, to look down at the discarded jacket on the floor. Her long white hair fell in front of face. She cursed, how on Gaea could she have forgotten to braid her hair?! She didn't have the time to fix it now, she was already late. She was supposed to be up before dawn to talk to Folken. The damn moron, what the hell did he give her yesterday? Her internals felt more beat up then the rest of her. Lending over, she opened the chest at the end of the bed and grabbed a few things out of it. Then swooped up the jacket and started for the door putting it on. Gods, she was hungry.
The room was quite when she slipped in. It was deserted except for the wooden table in the center, and the endless shelves of tethered books. The balcony by the far end, to the left of where she stood, was open with the curtains drawn back to let the midmorning sun to shine into the deserted chamber. Hanging the glossless black jacket over one of the wood chairs, her sapphire eyes trailed slowly over her surroundings. It looked oddly familiar to her, but these books that surrounded her held knowledge of a world that she knew so little of. Unlike those she grew up studying, these didn't hold names and faces of people who lived now, but held a history she was deprived of knowing.
Not that she cared anymore, what was the use of that knowledge now? It was irrelevant. No use to her now to do the work she was 'designed' for. 'Designed', what a sad word, she was designed' to protect, 'designed' to obtain knowledge that could be used. She was 'designed' to kill, how inhuman it made her sound at times. When she thought about it. Which was a rarity, if she tried to concentrate enough to try and remember something past her first mission when she was nine years old her head would being to hurt. Their fall safe they used, taking with them nine years of memories that she couldn't have. With an annoyed growl she turned to walk out onto the balcony, and massaged her temples, trying to smooth away the pain.
What an annoyance, she sighed inwardly, as she looked over the edge at the pasting mountain sides. She dropped her hands and laid them on the railing, with her head resting on top. Quietly Rei watched as everything pasted by slowly, until the clicking of be dog tags began to annoy her. She stood up, and looked down at the small pieces of metal around her neck.
"REI," She said aloud, to none but be herself, below it follow other writing. "AB NEGATIVE..." Turning them over slowly, she looked down at the print that could barely be seen. "PROJECT 009." It was all she was worth, three digits the rest was nothing but a lie. A lie, how sad.
'What is the dream?
We have the dream now
What is the dream?
We make the dream come true.'
The words left her lips, as she let the tags fall back around her neck. She didn't even release she was saying them, as she listened to the winds. They were cold and empty, but as she repeated then the second time, the wind seemed to begin to sing the melody.
'Matteireba, yume wa kanau hazu to,
Tada shinjiteta osanai hi,
Sora wo nagareru hikari ni negai wo kake,
Hohoemi nagara ima wo tsumuide-ita,
Matte-ite mo, yume wa kanawanai to,
Sou shitta no wa itsu no goro."
The wind picked up lightly as the Vione passed over the next valley, her tangled white hair danced loosely in the pony tail. The pain from her forehead had dead away and was replaced with the agony of her soar muscles.
'Yasashii hito wa kanashimi bakari seoi,
Omoide to yuu yami ni umorete yuku,
Koboreru tsumi no nioi,
Doushite nanimo kizutsukezu ni,
Ai wo mamorenai no,
afureru uso no kakera,
Kono te ni daita shiawase ni wa,
Dareka no namida shimite'ru.'
She bit her lip, oddly normally she could remember more of it. But it seemed it, like everything else that wasn't important, was fading away. Frowning, she turned her head to the side a bit, annoyance filtered in her eyes.
"How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough," Folken replied solemnly, as she turned around a bit to face him. He stood in the shadowed part of the room away from the reach for the morning sun light. "Do you know what you were saying?"
"Yes.." Rei looked back out on to the mountains, focusing her mind away from the pains that were being to make themselves noticeable. White bangs dance over her eyes, she thought quickly on how to change the subject. "Why didn't anyone wake me up this morning?"
"Dilandau took one look at you this morning, and ordered the slayers to let you sleep. Not that it would have mattered if you did get up, they're all in the hanger taking care of their melefs." She heard him shift and being to move around behind her, she could hear his hand move a crossed one of the shelves of books. "Do... do you remember anything about last night?"
Rei turned completely around this time. He hesitated to ask her, why? Walking to the door way of the balcony, and lending on the door, she studied the man. His body was hidden from view by the long dark cloak, his cool violet eyes (a/n my friend and I were in an agreement half the night trying to figure out his eyes color.. we ended up on agreeing to maroon red violet [how she knows this things, I have no clue] but if any one can figure it out the right color, tell me plez!!) looked over the pages in the small book. Small dark lines were under them, she turned her head to the side a bit to put this new element to calculation. He hadn't slept well, which meant something was bothering him.
"I.. remember taking off from the hanger, and waking up to Migual shaking me. Beyond that, it's a complete blank." Cocking her to the side, she watched him closely. She hated people like him, most of the time. So secretive, so damn quiet, and the whole 'looking endlessly at a book' thing was annoying, really annoying. There was a frown on his face as he put the book back on the shelf, and walked over to the table. He put something down at one end before setting down at the other. Rei took it as a sign to sit, not that she would mind it, her legs were starting to hurt. They felt over used. She walked up to the wooden table once again, and grabbed the item on the table as she sat down. It was a small brush, black, with a silver 'C' on the back.
Settling herself down on the cold chair, she undid the pony tail, and slowly started to brush out the tangles that were scattered along her long strains. There was no sound in the room, except for the steady sound of the brush as it went through her hair. She was crouched on the chair, like a cat ready to spring, watching Folken. His violet eyes were half closed as he was thinking hard about something. Her sapphire eyes drifted away, and looked back over to the books. Even if she had been deprived of some things here, the medical books caught her eye, especially a tattered gold one that was broken and falling apart.
"You won't happen to know were the rest of it is, would you?" His calm voice startled her, Rei almost dropped the brush. He was studying her from a crossed the way. Shifting uncomfortable, she looked back at the havened book.
"No.. The last time I sawl it Axiom put it in a safe. When are the rest of my things getting here? I don't like stealing uniforms that don't fit." She tried to change the subject, which seemed to work. Either that or he caught on she didn't want to tell him anything.
"Tonight hopefully, given that we've changed course." She cocked her head to the side, as a tan folder slid a crossed the table, stopping just before it fell off. "'They' have something that you have to take care of."
grumbles something about evilness sorry for taking so long.. School started at the beginning of the month for me. and marching has been hectic. Two drills down.. two more to go I think our instructor is sooooooo trying to kill me 12 steps to go over two yard lines(for those of you who don't know, yard lines are eight equal steps apart, and I'm 5 foot, so that makes it kinda hard for the short ppl to do that)
And then we come to the loooong chapter. It took me a while because 1) hard time getting around to writing, and 2) I suddenly went into a drawling frenzy, and couldn't think strait enough to write.. go figure The next chapter (hopefully) will explain a little more, and we will have a appearance of someone very important to Dilly-sama. I give you three guess who it is, and the first two don't count! silences ok, ok I'll give you a hint. Her name starts with an 'C'!