Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Esca Characters but i do own Jhori Lee.

Chapter 1

Jhori Lee walked slowly towards home. It was cold and the wind was blowing her long brown, layered hair into her eyes. She was supposed to have gone to her cousin's house after school, but Hitomi wasn't home. Jhori decided to walk around the park for a while to sulk, before going home.

Dark clouds rolled in, darkening the sky as if changing to fit her mood. She didn't like when it rained, she had wanted the sun to continue to shine hoping that it would have helped to brighten her mood. She continued to walk through the park, not caring if she got wet or not.

She finally came to her favorite spot. It was a fountain that sat almost secluded in the middle of the park, with tall hedges completely surrounding it. It had been her special hiding place for 9 years. She had found it one day when she was walking home with her mother after school, when she was 8. She had stopped to look at the flowers by the hedges and had tried to get closer to smell the ones in the back and almost stepped on a rabbit that had been hiding there.

Losing her balance she had fallen in the hedge and out the other side, where she found the fountain. When she heard her mother calling her she had scrambled out of the hedge and went home with her. She never forgot where it was though and she had come there ever since to think or just to be alone.

As she pushed through the hedges she was startled to see a tall figure standing there by the fountain. She paused uncertain of whether or not to be mad that someone was there or to back through the hedges and leave. Before she made up her mind the figure turned towards her.

"It's alright, Jhori" he said, "You can come through. I won't hurt you."

She stood frozen unable to move. She looked at his blue spiked hair and purple teardrop mark under his right eye. She couldn't tell what color his eyes were because of the clouds and rain coming down.

"How do you know my name?" she asked suspiciously.

"I was told to make sure you got to my world safely" he said "and without any accidents."

"What do you mean 'your world'?" she asked.

"I was told that you are the only one that could help the Dragonslayers find the mystical Dragon called Escaflowne," he said walking over to her. Taking her hand he gently pulled her out of the hedge toward the fountain.

"And to do that you must come to my world with me" he continued.

As he spoke she started to hear a humming sound and then she saw wings explode out of his back. She stared at them as he grabbed her by the waist and flew upwards toward the sky. Frightened she hung onto him.

"Wh...! Whats happening!" she cried.

She couldn't hear his reply, if he had replied, because there was an explosion as a bright light shot out from them and she blacked out.

When she woke up she was laying on the ground beside a tall tree. Slowly she stood up and searched for that strange man with the blue hair.

"Hello?" she called "hey, Blue Dude where are you?"

Folken stood unnoticed behind the tree. When she had her back turned to him he silently walked up behind her and with a swift hit, knocked her unconscious. He smiled to himself as he watched her fall to the ground.

"She should be out long enough for him to find her here" he said softly to himself as he spread his wings and flew up to the Vione.