Flight from the Mystic Moon
Steam enveloped my body and thick cranking sounds make me twitch in fear. The grinding of gears and mist coming off of… whatever it was make me numb. A heavy thud and I could tell something was coming close to me. My instincts told me what to do and I followed them; I ran. Even then I could hear the footsteps behind me… they ran faster than I did which made panic spark.
"Get away from me!" What else would I have said? "God dammit, go away! Don't touch me!" I didn't even finish telling whatever chased after me to leave alone before I was knocked painfully to the ground. I rolled away and the sky spun, but it didn't stop me from crawling in zigzag's to get away. The taste of dirt and blood was in my mouth.
"Stop!" I stopped. Human dialect again… I could have cried thankfully if hands hadn't ripped me up from the ground and left me dangling inches from the earth; and I wasn't a short person.
"Don't touch me!" I kicked the person and my foot landed on something hard. It rang when I made contact and I couldn't help think this person was not human. My foot fricken hurt.
"I said stop." The voice was not angry… If I knew I was on my planet, maybe then I'd have cried.
"Mother…" I didn't cry… it was a sad and pathetic call for something and someone out of reach.
"Open your eyes." I hadn't even noticed my eyes had been closed until he said something. The low toned voice had to be male… if anything.
"Don't hurt me…" I hated myself for begging. I felt sick and even then I thought my stomach would end up on the person holding me up.
"I promise." I was set down and I noticed heavy breathing and opened my eyes. Gods the normal sight before me had never seemed so fantastic, a human… a man… nothing more. He breathed heavily from what I assumed was chasing after me. I didn't realize in my panic just how far we had run until now. I almost gagged then when my mind returned to the giant that loomed over me before. "Are you alright? Are you a survivor here?" I looked back and recalled the blood and threw up again while nodding.
Would he have believed me if I said I was from a planet in the sky? I wouldn't' have, so I decided I was now a survivor from whatever had happened here. When the man questioned me I told him my mind was blank and it hurt to think back. I told him I remembered only the blood and that I was looking for my mother. It wasn't a hard truth to sell.
"You'll be ok… Let's head back now and I'll get you some food and care." I followed mindlessly. I was mentally empty… everything up till now having been too much until we crested a hill and I looked once more at what set fear into my bones.
"No!" I grabbed him and ripped him back while flattening myself to the ground. "Are you not blind? Do you not see that thing over there?" I yelled\whispering at him. I could have hit him then, but he only looked at me oddly.
"That? That right there?" He looked back at me like I was insane. "That is mine. Scherezade is my Guymelef. What is your name girl?" It seemed not knowing what that monster of a thing was made me look like the guilty party here and I wasn't about to give him my name.
So I made the mistake of giving him my mothers.
"Kanzaki Hitomi." His face did not seem to like my lie at all and he stood up and tossed me over his shoulder without a single word.
"Let me go, let me go! Are you insane? Don't touch me!" And the necklace dropped from my pants pocket. My stomach lurched as it fell and glittered on the dew covered grass. "Wait my necklace, please don't leave without it!" Thankfully he stopped. He bent down with me still over his shoulder and I set my hand back to take it, but he never put it in my hand. He stared at it and then back to me.
"Where did you get this, Hitomi?" My blood ceased to flow in my veins; his tone was deadly cold.
"It's mine." The world stopped turning and I looked up at my planet thinking I wasn't ever going to see it again. He saw what I did and looked back at me.
"Who gave it to you?" How did he know? Then again how else would I have gotten it? I could only have received it, stole it or bought it and he knew… he knew I was given it.
"It was my mothers." So what? What was that going to tell him? He tossed me down and clutched my necklace in his hands then bent over to glare at me.
"Your mother? That doesn't sound right 'Hitomi'." He swung himself up into the giant which remained still before steam frothed down once more and the gears returned to life. "Welcome Kanzaki Hitomi. This is Scherezade, my Guymelef and I am its master Allen Schzar, knight of Caeli of Asturia." His voice echoes from the machine of sorts and its hand picked me up along with the ground around me. "Welcome." I didn't like what he said to me and even less how he said it. I believed then that I was going to hate this 'Allan' fellow very much no matter how much like my father he looked. A blonde devil in a knight's guise was what he was and I had no idea just where he was taking me. All I could do was curl up in the massive hands that held me and try to stop the sounds screaming in my mind.
"Mother… " Belated I thought of father as well as the ground thundered beneath the monster's heavy feet as it ran with ease away from the planet hanging in the sky. I hated this place.