Angel's Flight

Chapter 1- White Vision

Hello!! I'm back!! Yes.... Me... I decided that all the Inu-Yasha fanfics were kinda driving me insane... I'm still working on them!! So no-worries everyone!!! It's just that I had an idea for an Escaflowne fanfic because for some reason the way the series ended was just not satisfying enough for me. So here I am with another fanfic up... - I hope you will enjoy it and I'll do my best to respond to your replies and ideas so yeah... - For Eternal Embrace there are going to be some really sweet fluff....how do I know?? Well... I am half-way through writing it. - So that'll be sweet... - I'm also trying to get up a sequel to Scarlet Feathers but I'm totally washed out of ideas I have a storyline but I don't know exactly how to start it out... so you people might have to wait a little... gomen ne!! And so I better start the story now... enjoy!!

Tsubasa-Chan

Chapter 1 –

Hitomi grimaced slightly as she reached out her hand toward a little child's outstretched hand. She winced as pain coursed through her body; she turned and looked at her shoulder to find it bleeding uncontrollably. She took the child's hand in her own as she pulled the child into a tight embrace and silently prayed for a miracle as a shadow loomed over them. A bright pale azure light enveloped the child and herself ...

BRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!-------

"Ugh..." Hitomi reached out and slammed her hand at the clock and it instantly stopped. She groaned as she dug her head deeper into her pillow, hoping to drift back to sleep. She hoped too soon...

"MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hitomi's eyes snapped open as she felt a little bundle land on top of her with a little 'oof'. She winced somewhat before turning and looking at the black haired child before her. She stroked the little girl's hair and smiled.

"Ka-Chan!!!" the little girl smiled broadly at her mother.

"Hikari..." Hitomi smiled at her daughter and she looked deeply into her deep black eyes and she saw her child's father within them, somehow... she had had Van's child without ever making 'contact'... she wasn't exactly sure how but it was definitely Van's child. Besides looking like her father with the dark eyes and hair... the child... Hikari... had wings... tsubasa. Hitomi sighed, she was barely at her second year of college, and she was already a mother of a five year old, but she loved her daughter with all her heart and she was sure the father did too... if he knew about it... they had kept contact for a year or so but after that the chats or sightings got less and less... Hitomi often wondered what her love was doing whether he had a child and a new love... it often made her worry but if he was happy.... So was she.

"Ka-Chan??" the girl asked breaking Hitomi out of her thoughts. Hitomi turned to look at her daughter whose dark eyes seemed to glitter in the early morning's sunlight.

"Where's Do-San???" ((Father (pronounce it Doh-San)) Hikari asked, she constantly had questions about her father and her face lit up when she heard all the wonderful thing about him, many she had heard time and time again, but Hitomi never hesitated to tell her child. Hitomi turned her gaze out the window and into the morning sky.

"He's far away Hikari... very far away..." she sighed.

"Do I look like him??" Hikari asked and at that question Hitomi smiled.

"Yes... you look exactly like him." Hitomi closed her eyes and pictured her loved one, and all of her features.

"You have his dark hair and eyes, you have his charm, and his gentleness... you have that bright smile that lights up your face..." Hitomi smiled and opened her eyes and looked at the child that was a constant reminder of what she had left behind. It was like a small but consistent ripple in a pond it sometimes brought Hitomi to tears, however her daughter also gave her the strength to carry on. It was her curse and yet...her blessing.

Did Do-San have wings too??" Hikari asked. Hitomi looked at her child and smiled as she ruffled the little girl's black hair.

"Yes, he had wings...he had great big, shiroi tsubasa. Just like you Hikari." Hikari's eyes lit up and they seemed to sparkle in the morning's light. She loved to hear stories about her father.

"Will I ever get to see him??" Hikari asked her mother. Hitomi glanced at her daughter sadly before she turned her gaze to the window where the sunlight seemed to dance on the morning dew that still clung to the flowers that grew on her windowsill. She looked into the blue sky and she knew somewhere Gaea hung in the heavens.

"I don't think so... but if you wish hard enough you might have a chance, wish hard enough and your wishes will come true." Hitomi looked at her only daughter...her only child who for a moment lost all hope but it was regained and the child smiled broadly.

"I can do that!! Will you wish with me too??" Hikari tugged gently on her mother's sleeve. Hitomi smiled and nodded.

"Enough talk for now, remember it's our day out today!!" Hitomi lifted her child into her arms and hugged her tight.

"Oka-san!!! I'm going out with Hikari! Ja!" Hitomi waved to her mother before taking Hikari's hand in her own and rushing out the door.

Hitomi and Hikari strolled down the busy streets; Hikari dressed in a pale blue dress, her hair flowed behind her with out a white ribbon to keep it from getting disorganized and in tangles. Hitomi's hair on the other hand was still short and she wore a white tank top with a navy skirt. She looked into the calm summer sky and she gave her daughter's hand a gentle squeeze.

Before Hitomi knew it the sun had disappeared behind the tall buildings and the lights on the streets flickered before lighting up the streets. Hitomi and Hikari made their way home and a cold rush of wind blew past them sending Hikari's ribbon sailing into the air.

"My ribbon!!!" Hikari yelled and chased after it.

"Hikari!! No!!" Hitomi screamed after her child before tearing after her.

The white ribbon sailed into the air and the wind died down enough for it to gracefully flutter to the ground. Hikari sighed a sigh of relief before bending down to pick it up. Until a shadow loomed over the tiny child, Hikari looked up from where she was standing only to see an overly sized person standing over her. The man was at least 1000 times bigger than her and his eyes held an odd red glow within them. Hikari shuddered and she slowly backed away only to bump into a solid wall. The man sensed fear in the child black orbs and he smiled manically.

"What is a little chump like you-" the man started before being abruptly cut off.

"Hikari!!!" Hitomi ran toward her child and pulled her into a tight embrace.

"Don't ever do that again...you hear me? I was so worried." Hikari nodded solemnly as she sniffled slightly and returned the hug.

"Aww... ain't that cute?? Mother and child...together... well sweet fluffy cuteness time is over" The man walked up to Hitomi who had stood and put her daughter behind her. She tried to stand tall and strong, after all that's what Van would do, but her eyes told a different story. Those green orbs radiated fear and the man could tell. He smiled before making her way toward Hitomi. Hitomi stepped back on reaction and the man grabbed her wrist and flung her to the wall, Hikari screamed and ran toward her mother but was picked up ruthlessly by two other people and Hikari helplessly watched her mother get thrown around like a rag. Hitomi's breathing became shallow as she struggled to get on her feet; she looked up at the man, defiance burned brightly in her bright green eyes.

"Hmm... this one's a strong one... lots of fun those are." The man laughed as he watched Hitomi struggle to gain balance only to be pinned to the wall by brute force.

"Let me go..." Hitomi croaked her voice barely above a whisper; as she began to thrash about violently but to no avail, she looked into the man's deep brown eyes her own green ones ablaze with fury and hatred. Her throat was dry and she had no energy for this, when was the last time she had to do this?? Five? Six years ago?? She did the only thing that came to her mind at that moment...scream...and scream loud.

An ear-piercing scream filled the whole alley and Hitomi felt a rough hand cover her mouth. Perfect... she bit through the flesh that was covering her mouth and as she assumed the man uttered an oath before releasing her. She dropped to the hard ground, she lay there for a second hoping to gain a moments rest... no such luck. She was grabbed by the wrist and thrown to a corner. She shut her eyes tightly and she could hear her daughter's muffled screaming. She could feel a deep burning pain in her shoulder but she ignored it... they better not be doing anything to her daughter or they were going to get a piece of her mind!! She opened her eyes weakly and she could see scarlet covering the floor... funny... when did they paint the floor red? Now was no time to worry about that as she struggled to her feet and she glared at the man that had thrown her like some toy that was unwanted.

"Don't...touch... my daughter..." She whispered weakly, where the hell was the hell?? Hadn't she screamed for help?? Where were the sirens of those police people?? Isn't their job to help helpless people? Where were they when they were needed?? 'Screw the police.' She thought as she glared at all the men that had her surrounded... great... five big dudes... and one her... great.

"Strong wench aren't you? Could've taken a liking to her if she had been obedient..." Hitomi smirked slightly but it looked more like a wince of pain.

"Sorry... I'm taken..." She held onto the wall to make sure she wouldn't lose her balance. Her breathing came difficult now... how much longer? She closed her eyes and tried to catch a breath... when was she so out of breath? She felt herself being lifted from the ground again and she felt so totally helpless... weren't these people tired yet?? She had aches all over her body and she could hear her daughter crying uncontrollably as she felt herself collide with a solid object and she hit it... hard. She groaned slightly she felt all her remaining energy get totally drained from her. Hikari looked at he mother terrified. She bit the man's hand...something she learned from her mother and she was dropped.

"KA-SAN!!!!" Hikari ran towards her mother, her hand outstretched.

Hitomi opened her eyes weakly at the sound of her child's screaming...she looked toward her daughter and she realized this was all in her dream that she had this morning. She looked over to her shoulder it was bleed non stop just like in her dream. She took her child's hand in her own and she pulled her into a hug, and just as in the dream she and Hikari were enveloped in a pale blue light...

Okay!! Cool!! That's the first chapter!! Hope you enjoyed it!! This was a rather long chapter... he he... I think I'll keep all my chapters long... I like stories when chapters are long but if I don't have long chapters and I want that from others I'd be a hypocrite now wouldn't I? So I'll try to keep then long... I said I'll try so yeah.... Anyways please review!!! See you next time!!

Lavendersakura

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in The Vision of Escaflowne... however.... I wish I did... Van at least... but I do own Hikari... so there!!