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loved! So, anyway, I'm going to reply to the reviews at the end of the
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Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I do not own Escaflowne. I own this story, and a PS2, Kingdom Hearts(game), FF8 and FFX(the games), a cat and the word squee, which was custom made and fitted for me by one of my slaves. No, really, it was!
TWO
"Wait. explain this to me again. I'm on another planet? And you're all aliens? And you have these giant swordy-robot things called goomellifs? Rewind, freeze! I'm lost! How come you can see the Earth, but the Earth can't see you? And for that matter, how do you live without tv???" Asked Van, pacing around and then falling into a chair.
"Alright, I'll say it again," growled Hitomi. "Yes, you are on another planet. We are not aliens, we are human beings."
"Except for the queen here," growled a little pink thing that had glomped Hitomi and hissed at Van upon their entrance to the castle. Van thought it was a cat-girl, but saying this out loud had earned him several deep scratches, which were still very bloody and sore.
"Shut up," said Hitomi, clamping her hand over the cat's mouth. "Anyway, the robots are called Guymelefs. We use them to fight. As for being able to see the "Earth," as you called it, I don't know. I suppose it's an enchantment from the Draconians," she said, smacking the cat on the head when it bit her.
"The queen knows all about Draconians," said the cat slyly.
"Shut UP Merle!" hissed Hitomi again, using her hand to hold the cat girl's (or, as Van supposed, Merle's) mouth shut. "Can't you keep your fat trap shut for a minute?"
"Mrrrrroooowwwwwww," said Merle. This entire discussion was giving Van even more of a headache, so he tipped back his chair, and promptly fell over.
"Ha ha!" exclaimed Merle, pointing at Van and laughing.
"Merle, it's rude to laugh at our guest," said Hitomi in a warning tone.
"So?" asked Merle innocently. "He's funny!"
"Shut up," grumbled Van, getting grumpily to his feet. "So, let me get this straight. I'm on Gaia, not earth. I am a guest in the palace of the most bit- I mean, beautiful queen. You use robots called Guymelefs to kill each other. The cats here talk. That's all great, but how do I get home?"
"I don't know," said Hitomi, becoming serious and quiet and sitting down on the table, absently swinging her legs. "Because I am responsible for this, I will stop at nothing to get you back to earth. You'll return to your home- I promise."
"You know, you could just FLY him back," said Merle, ceasing licking her paw to look up at Hitomi with a steely glint in her eye. "It probably would be no problem for-"
"SHUT IT MERLE!" Yelled Hitomi, pouncing on the cat.
"You can fly?" asked Van in awe. Hitomi looked up from where she had Merle in a head lock, and tittered.
"It's. uh.. My Gumelef. Escaflowne! Yes, my Guymelef, Escaflowne, can fly, so Merle is proposing that I take you back to the mystic moon in my Guymelef, Escaflowne. Which can fly. Heh heh heh." There was a quick and suprising shift from the cocky Hitomi to the slightly alarmed, not quite so assured, nervously laughing Hitomi.
"Um, okay," said Van, giving both Hitomi and Merle (who quite seemed to be enjoying the young monarch's sudden change in attitude) odd looks. Someone knocked on the door. Hitomi stood off, brushed the fur off of her clothes, and called out "come in!"
"Highness," said a tall, heavyset man, walking into the room and bowing low.
"Balgus," greeted Hitomi. Balgus straightened up and walked over to Hitomi.
"It is time for your coronation," he said, glancing strangely at Van. "Are you ready?"
"Oh, Lady Hitomi, you're going to look soooo beautiful," squeed Merle, stars twinkling in her eyes. "I promise I won't scratch up your dress! You'll be so pretty and."
"I will wear the traditional coronation outfit," said Hitomi, still looking up at Balgus.
"But Hitoooommmmiiiii. that's GUY's clothes," protested Merle, only to have a foot shoved in her face.
"Yes, your majesty," said Balgus, leading Hitomi out of the room.
"Woah, wait, what about me?" Van asked Merle.
"How should I know?" she growled, her fur standing on end. "Just follow me, and DON'T GET INTO TROUBLE!" she snapped. Van gulped and moved away from the vase he was about to inspect.
"Um, okay, Miss Merle," he said, following the pink-and orange menace out the door and down the corridor.
.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.
"Look at the queen." Whispers echoed through the crowd lined around where Hitomi's coronation ceremony was taking place. "Only she could look so fabulous in a man's coronation suit." Van had been inclined to laugh at Hitomi's ridiculous costume, but he knew that the young queen would not hesitate in slaughtering him- or at least, causing him a great deal of excruciation. Hitomi made her way through a large gate, which clanged shut after her entrance. The townsfolk lined up outside it dispersed, with much praise for the king Of course, Merle was within the gate with the monarch, along with her new favorite scratching post, Van. Van tried to ignore the frequent, digging pains in his legs (and arms, and torso.) and instead concentrated on the coronation ceremony. Van didn't understand a lot of what was said (it was in odd old lingo), but still appreciated the beauty and care with which the ceremony was performed. It had almost end, when a loud crash resonated through the city.
"What the.." Van stammered as he saw buildings crushed and burned.
"Highness," said Balgus, "take Escaflowne and go! Do not stay and fight. You need to protect yourself and your guest!" he roared over the noise, pushing Hitomi.
"But Balgus!" Hitomi called, but her guardian was gone and she was left alone with Van and Merle.
"Merle, head for the hills," Hitomi said, pointing at a nearby mountain. "I will meet up with you later."
"But Lady Hitomi," she mewled, "what about you?"
"I'm going to stay and fight," she said. Van shook his head. Hadn't that Booger or Balgus or whatever just said that she should flee. Merle mewed a sad goodbye, and then dashed off.
"Come on, Van," said Hitomi, grabbing the boy by the wrist and dragging him towards one of the large hills that surrounded the city. She dragged him up step after step- even being in track didn't help make the run easier- and finally, into a large shrine, where she ripped off her coronation outfit.
"Ack!" yelled Van, covering his eyes.
"Enough," she said, and Van peeked through his fingers. She was wearing those weird clothes again. Oh.
Hitomi had walked into the center of an odd looking spiral. She held out the dragon-heart she had retrieved on earth, and pricked her finger on the end of her sword. She let her blood drip into the energist, and murmured almost inaudibly:
"Escaflowne, I bind you to me with my blood until the day I am no longer queen." Quite suddenly, it seemed as though the world was shaking. Van watched in awe as a giant robot fell from an encasement in the ceiling. Kneeling at Hitomi's feet.
"Holy shit," he muttered, his jaw hanging open. Hitomi reached into the giant, red, crystal on the left side of the Guymelefs chest, and pushed in the energist like the crystal was made of jelly. She pulled her hand out, and the crystal hardened. Hitomi leapt up into the cockpit of the Guymelef and a protective armor came down, shielding her body.
"Ready?" she asked Van, crouching down so that he could hop onto her shoulder.
"No, but what the hell," he said, clambering up on to the slick shoulder of the robot.
"Here we go," said Hitomi, and the Guymelef raised itself up, up, up. Van closed his eyes and tried not to think about what would happen if he fell off, but sensed a presence behind him.
"Hitomi!" he called out. "Behind us!" Escaflowne whirled around and raised it's sword- just in time to prevent a blow from an invisible attacker.
"Oh god oh god oh god," said Van under his breath as Escaflowne engaged in a dance of death- with Van very, very close to the head.
"Let's just get out of here, dammit!" Van yelled down to Hitomi, clinging to the cold, sleek metal of the Guymelef.
"No! I must protect my country!" said Hitomi as Van pointed out another attacker.
"That's well and good- to the left!- for you, but there's two slight problems," Van yelled back. "One: Thanks to these guys, there's not even really a country to protect. And, two," he yelled, "How can you protect it if you're dead? It's pointless- Right!- to fight these guys because we can't see them! Hitomi, we can't win! Let's just get the hell outta here! Shit!" At that exact moment, the shrine caught on fire, turning into a blazing inferno in seconds. "I HATE FIRE!!!!" he exclaimed, squirming uncomfortably as the metal of the Guymelef began to heat up. "Let's GO dammit!!!!" he yelled. Hitomi seemed to have finally got the message- or maybe that was because twenty more Guymelefs stormed in. Escaflowne rocketed upward, and with a clinking and clanging of metal, turned into a large dragon, Van sitting just behind Hitomi, who was at the controls.
"Thanks for finally getting us out of there. We would have only been slaughtered, chopped into a million pieces, roasted and turned into stew if we stayed," said Van. "Might I add that-"
"Van," said Hitomi, not bothering to look back at him, "Shut up. I'm trying to drive." Van shut up, seeing as Hitomi seemed to be in no mood for mindless bickering. Over Gaia Escaflowne soared, a mighty white dragon in a black, starry sky. Van watched over the edge of Escaflowne all the countryside, forests, rivers, that passed by. He soon grew very tired and passed out, just hoping that he wouldn't land on Hitomi, who seemed to be slightly on the grumpy side.
.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.
"Hey! Van! Wake up!" Hitomi shook Van's shoulder, hissing at him. "We're here." Groggily, Van opened one eye, first noticing that he was sprawled in a very awkward position on Escaflowne's shoulder, second noticing that Hitomi was in a much better mood, and thirdly taking note that they had landed in a large forest.
"Wow, look at all the trees. I didn't know that this many trees even existed. Woo," he said sleepily, and immediately fell back asleep.
"Van, wake up or I'll slice off your head," said Hitomi. Van woke up.
"Y-yes ma'am. So, where are we?"
"In a forest, on the outskirts of Austaria."
"Austria? Isn't that somewhere below India? No, that'd be Australia. Austria is in Africa, or maybe Europe, hell I don't know. Hey! Are we on Earth now?" Van jabbered, noticing that the forest was very dark and spooky and that Hitomi was getting up and walking away.
"No. We're in Austaria. Neighbor country of Fanelia, and an ally. I'm going to seek refuge for us from some of the locals, get help, and return to Fanelia to slaughter Zaibach."
"I thought those were Guymelefs," said Van confusedly, hopping down from Escaflowne, landing in an odd position, and wincing.
"They were Guymelefs. Guymelefs sent by the Zaibach Empire."
"Oh," said Van, following Hitomi through the woods. "Hey, uh Hitomi." he said, noticing a dark shadow following them.
"Shut it."
"But, Hitomi."
"I said, Shut it."
"But, I think there's someone following us."
"Yes, there is. Now shut up."
"But."
"Argh! That's it! Van, if I have to tell you to shut up one more time, I'll gouge your eyes out. As for whatever is following us, there is absolutely nothing that we can do about them until they choose to show themselves. You got it?" Hitomi was glaring fiercely at Van, and Van's suspicions were confirmed. Hitomi had Gaia's biggest case of PMS anywhere.
"Yes, your highness," he meeped meekly.
"Good. Escaflowne will be fine by itself, so we don't have to worry about that. Only I can operate it. So, the question is, how to get out of this forest."
"I can help!" Whoever it was that was following them stepped forward.
"Uh. Hitomi? What is that?" Van whispered. Hitomi shrugged.
"Who are you and what services do you offer?" she asked him, eyeing him warily. He looked to be a giant, overgrown, Mole-made-human, with glasses that shone dully in the light from the two moons above.
"Just call me Mister Mole. I can get you anywhere, for a price."
"Name it," said Hitomi. Mister Mole eyed up the young queen, and then Van, and suddenly lunged at the young monarch. They began to roll on the ground. Under normal circumstances, Van's perverted mind would have kicked in right here, but since he had wound up on Gaia, nothing was normal. Van looked desperately around, and saw where Hitomi had dropped her sword. He pulled it out of it's sheaf, and pointed it straight at the Mole.
"Get off her, now," Van said, his voice dangerously low. "Get off and I might spare you." Though Van did, indeed, know nothing about swords, he held it the way he had once seen in Monty Python, trying his best to act as intimidating as possible. It seemed to be working, though, as Mister Mole slowly got up off of Hitomi. The queen got up, and Van tossed her her sword.
"Show me how to get to Austaria. What I will give you is the option to continue living. I should kill you for the unprovoked attack on the ruling monarch of Faneila, but as it seems I have a slight advantage," said Hitomi with a twisted smirk, "you will lead me to the nearest city, and I will spare you."
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, sorry, sorry! I just saw your pretty pendant and."
"It does not matter what you did or did not see. What matters is that I will kill you unless you show me the way."
"You heard her, Mole dude," Said Van, glowering at the short little mole man. "Show us to the nearest city and you get to keep your head."
"Van, I really don't need your help," said Hitomi. Mister Mole shot Van an odd glance, but began to lead the way through the forest.
'Ooh, I hope this isn't a trap," thought Van to himself as they walked through the forest. Quite suddenly, He and Hitomi toppled into a well disguised pit.
"Shit."
A/N: Well? How is it? ^____^ I had a bit of writers block, in case you couldn't tell .; eh heh, anywhoo.
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PS Dilandu loves flames. I'm not Dilandu. I like catching things on fire, as long as it isn't in my story. You send flames, I light random things in the story on fire. JUST A WARNING!
Disclaimer: Sadly enough, I do not own Escaflowne. I own this story, and a PS2, Kingdom Hearts(game), FF8 and FFX(the games), a cat and the word squee, which was custom made and fitted for me by one of my slaves. No, really, it was!
TWO
"Wait. explain this to me again. I'm on another planet? And you're all aliens? And you have these giant swordy-robot things called goomellifs? Rewind, freeze! I'm lost! How come you can see the Earth, but the Earth can't see you? And for that matter, how do you live without tv???" Asked Van, pacing around and then falling into a chair.
"Alright, I'll say it again," growled Hitomi. "Yes, you are on another planet. We are not aliens, we are human beings."
"Except for the queen here," growled a little pink thing that had glomped Hitomi and hissed at Van upon their entrance to the castle. Van thought it was a cat-girl, but saying this out loud had earned him several deep scratches, which were still very bloody and sore.
"Shut up," said Hitomi, clamping her hand over the cat's mouth. "Anyway, the robots are called Guymelefs. We use them to fight. As for being able to see the "Earth," as you called it, I don't know. I suppose it's an enchantment from the Draconians," she said, smacking the cat on the head when it bit her.
"The queen knows all about Draconians," said the cat slyly.
"Shut UP Merle!" hissed Hitomi again, using her hand to hold the cat girl's (or, as Van supposed, Merle's) mouth shut. "Can't you keep your fat trap shut for a minute?"
"Mrrrrroooowwwwwww," said Merle. This entire discussion was giving Van even more of a headache, so he tipped back his chair, and promptly fell over.
"Ha ha!" exclaimed Merle, pointing at Van and laughing.
"Merle, it's rude to laugh at our guest," said Hitomi in a warning tone.
"So?" asked Merle innocently. "He's funny!"
"Shut up," grumbled Van, getting grumpily to his feet. "So, let me get this straight. I'm on Gaia, not earth. I am a guest in the palace of the most bit- I mean, beautiful queen. You use robots called Guymelefs to kill each other. The cats here talk. That's all great, but how do I get home?"
"I don't know," said Hitomi, becoming serious and quiet and sitting down on the table, absently swinging her legs. "Because I am responsible for this, I will stop at nothing to get you back to earth. You'll return to your home- I promise."
"You know, you could just FLY him back," said Merle, ceasing licking her paw to look up at Hitomi with a steely glint in her eye. "It probably would be no problem for-"
"SHUT IT MERLE!" Yelled Hitomi, pouncing on the cat.
"You can fly?" asked Van in awe. Hitomi looked up from where she had Merle in a head lock, and tittered.
"It's. uh.. My Gumelef. Escaflowne! Yes, my Guymelef, Escaflowne, can fly, so Merle is proposing that I take you back to the mystic moon in my Guymelef, Escaflowne. Which can fly. Heh heh heh." There was a quick and suprising shift from the cocky Hitomi to the slightly alarmed, not quite so assured, nervously laughing Hitomi.
"Um, okay," said Van, giving both Hitomi and Merle (who quite seemed to be enjoying the young monarch's sudden change in attitude) odd looks. Someone knocked on the door. Hitomi stood off, brushed the fur off of her clothes, and called out "come in!"
"Highness," said a tall, heavyset man, walking into the room and bowing low.
"Balgus," greeted Hitomi. Balgus straightened up and walked over to Hitomi.
"It is time for your coronation," he said, glancing strangely at Van. "Are you ready?"
"Oh, Lady Hitomi, you're going to look soooo beautiful," squeed Merle, stars twinkling in her eyes. "I promise I won't scratch up your dress! You'll be so pretty and."
"I will wear the traditional coronation outfit," said Hitomi, still looking up at Balgus.
"But Hitoooommmmiiiii. that's GUY's clothes," protested Merle, only to have a foot shoved in her face.
"Yes, your majesty," said Balgus, leading Hitomi out of the room.
"Woah, wait, what about me?" Van asked Merle.
"How should I know?" she growled, her fur standing on end. "Just follow me, and DON'T GET INTO TROUBLE!" she snapped. Van gulped and moved away from the vase he was about to inspect.
"Um, okay, Miss Merle," he said, following the pink-and orange menace out the door and down the corridor.
.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.
"Look at the queen." Whispers echoed through the crowd lined around where Hitomi's coronation ceremony was taking place. "Only she could look so fabulous in a man's coronation suit." Van had been inclined to laugh at Hitomi's ridiculous costume, but he knew that the young queen would not hesitate in slaughtering him- or at least, causing him a great deal of excruciation. Hitomi made her way through a large gate, which clanged shut after her entrance. The townsfolk lined up outside it dispersed, with much praise for the king Of course, Merle was within the gate with the monarch, along with her new favorite scratching post, Van. Van tried to ignore the frequent, digging pains in his legs (and arms, and torso.) and instead concentrated on the coronation ceremony. Van didn't understand a lot of what was said (it was in odd old lingo), but still appreciated the beauty and care with which the ceremony was performed. It had almost end, when a loud crash resonated through the city.
"What the.." Van stammered as he saw buildings crushed and burned.
"Highness," said Balgus, "take Escaflowne and go! Do not stay and fight. You need to protect yourself and your guest!" he roared over the noise, pushing Hitomi.
"But Balgus!" Hitomi called, but her guardian was gone and she was left alone with Van and Merle.
"Merle, head for the hills," Hitomi said, pointing at a nearby mountain. "I will meet up with you later."
"But Lady Hitomi," she mewled, "what about you?"
"I'm going to stay and fight," she said. Van shook his head. Hadn't that Booger or Balgus or whatever just said that she should flee. Merle mewed a sad goodbye, and then dashed off.
"Come on, Van," said Hitomi, grabbing the boy by the wrist and dragging him towards one of the large hills that surrounded the city. She dragged him up step after step- even being in track didn't help make the run easier- and finally, into a large shrine, where she ripped off her coronation outfit.
"Ack!" yelled Van, covering his eyes.
"Enough," she said, and Van peeked through his fingers. She was wearing those weird clothes again. Oh.
Hitomi had walked into the center of an odd looking spiral. She held out the dragon-heart she had retrieved on earth, and pricked her finger on the end of her sword. She let her blood drip into the energist, and murmured almost inaudibly:
"Escaflowne, I bind you to me with my blood until the day I am no longer queen." Quite suddenly, it seemed as though the world was shaking. Van watched in awe as a giant robot fell from an encasement in the ceiling. Kneeling at Hitomi's feet.
"Holy shit," he muttered, his jaw hanging open. Hitomi reached into the giant, red, crystal on the left side of the Guymelefs chest, and pushed in the energist like the crystal was made of jelly. She pulled her hand out, and the crystal hardened. Hitomi leapt up into the cockpit of the Guymelef and a protective armor came down, shielding her body.
"Ready?" she asked Van, crouching down so that he could hop onto her shoulder.
"No, but what the hell," he said, clambering up on to the slick shoulder of the robot.
"Here we go," said Hitomi, and the Guymelef raised itself up, up, up. Van closed his eyes and tried not to think about what would happen if he fell off, but sensed a presence behind him.
"Hitomi!" he called out. "Behind us!" Escaflowne whirled around and raised it's sword- just in time to prevent a blow from an invisible attacker.
"Oh god oh god oh god," said Van under his breath as Escaflowne engaged in a dance of death- with Van very, very close to the head.
"Let's just get out of here, dammit!" Van yelled down to Hitomi, clinging to the cold, sleek metal of the Guymelef.
"No! I must protect my country!" said Hitomi as Van pointed out another attacker.
"That's well and good- to the left!- for you, but there's two slight problems," Van yelled back. "One: Thanks to these guys, there's not even really a country to protect. And, two," he yelled, "How can you protect it if you're dead? It's pointless- Right!- to fight these guys because we can't see them! Hitomi, we can't win! Let's just get the hell outta here! Shit!" At that exact moment, the shrine caught on fire, turning into a blazing inferno in seconds. "I HATE FIRE!!!!" he exclaimed, squirming uncomfortably as the metal of the Guymelef began to heat up. "Let's GO dammit!!!!" he yelled. Hitomi seemed to have finally got the message- or maybe that was because twenty more Guymelefs stormed in. Escaflowne rocketed upward, and with a clinking and clanging of metal, turned into a large dragon, Van sitting just behind Hitomi, who was at the controls.
"Thanks for finally getting us out of there. We would have only been slaughtered, chopped into a million pieces, roasted and turned into stew if we stayed," said Van. "Might I add that-"
"Van," said Hitomi, not bothering to look back at him, "Shut up. I'm trying to drive." Van shut up, seeing as Hitomi seemed to be in no mood for mindless bickering. Over Gaia Escaflowne soared, a mighty white dragon in a black, starry sky. Van watched over the edge of Escaflowne all the countryside, forests, rivers, that passed by. He soon grew very tired and passed out, just hoping that he wouldn't land on Hitomi, who seemed to be slightly on the grumpy side.
.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.~.:*:.
"Hey! Van! Wake up!" Hitomi shook Van's shoulder, hissing at him. "We're here." Groggily, Van opened one eye, first noticing that he was sprawled in a very awkward position on Escaflowne's shoulder, second noticing that Hitomi was in a much better mood, and thirdly taking note that they had landed in a large forest.
"Wow, look at all the trees. I didn't know that this many trees even existed. Woo," he said sleepily, and immediately fell back asleep.
"Van, wake up or I'll slice off your head," said Hitomi. Van woke up.
"Y-yes ma'am. So, where are we?"
"In a forest, on the outskirts of Austaria."
"Austria? Isn't that somewhere below India? No, that'd be Australia. Austria is in Africa, or maybe Europe, hell I don't know. Hey! Are we on Earth now?" Van jabbered, noticing that the forest was very dark and spooky and that Hitomi was getting up and walking away.
"No. We're in Austaria. Neighbor country of Fanelia, and an ally. I'm going to seek refuge for us from some of the locals, get help, and return to Fanelia to slaughter Zaibach."
"I thought those were Guymelefs," said Van confusedly, hopping down from Escaflowne, landing in an odd position, and wincing.
"They were Guymelefs. Guymelefs sent by the Zaibach Empire."
"Oh," said Van, following Hitomi through the woods. "Hey, uh Hitomi." he said, noticing a dark shadow following them.
"Shut it."
"But, Hitomi."
"I said, Shut it."
"But, I think there's someone following us."
"Yes, there is. Now shut up."
"But."
"Argh! That's it! Van, if I have to tell you to shut up one more time, I'll gouge your eyes out. As for whatever is following us, there is absolutely nothing that we can do about them until they choose to show themselves. You got it?" Hitomi was glaring fiercely at Van, and Van's suspicions were confirmed. Hitomi had Gaia's biggest case of PMS anywhere.
"Yes, your highness," he meeped meekly.
"Good. Escaflowne will be fine by itself, so we don't have to worry about that. Only I can operate it. So, the question is, how to get out of this forest."
"I can help!" Whoever it was that was following them stepped forward.
"Uh. Hitomi? What is that?" Van whispered. Hitomi shrugged.
"Who are you and what services do you offer?" she asked him, eyeing him warily. He looked to be a giant, overgrown, Mole-made-human, with glasses that shone dully in the light from the two moons above.
"Just call me Mister Mole. I can get you anywhere, for a price."
"Name it," said Hitomi. Mister Mole eyed up the young queen, and then Van, and suddenly lunged at the young monarch. They began to roll on the ground. Under normal circumstances, Van's perverted mind would have kicked in right here, but since he had wound up on Gaia, nothing was normal. Van looked desperately around, and saw where Hitomi had dropped her sword. He pulled it out of it's sheaf, and pointed it straight at the Mole.
"Get off her, now," Van said, his voice dangerously low. "Get off and I might spare you." Though Van did, indeed, know nothing about swords, he held it the way he had once seen in Monty Python, trying his best to act as intimidating as possible. It seemed to be working, though, as Mister Mole slowly got up off of Hitomi. The queen got up, and Van tossed her her sword.
"Show me how to get to Austaria. What I will give you is the option to continue living. I should kill you for the unprovoked attack on the ruling monarch of Faneila, but as it seems I have a slight advantage," said Hitomi with a twisted smirk, "you will lead me to the nearest city, and I will spare you."
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, sorry, sorry! I just saw your pretty pendant and."
"It does not matter what you did or did not see. What matters is that I will kill you unless you show me the way."
"You heard her, Mole dude," Said Van, glowering at the short little mole man. "Show us to the nearest city and you get to keep your head."
"Van, I really don't need your help," said Hitomi. Mister Mole shot Van an odd glance, but began to lead the way through the forest.
'Ooh, I hope this isn't a trap," thought Van to himself as they walked through the forest. Quite suddenly, He and Hitomi toppled into a well disguised pit.
"Shit."
A/N: Well? How is it? ^____^ I had a bit of writers block, in case you couldn't tell .; eh heh, anywhoo.
THANKYOU TO ALL OF MY LOVLEY REVIEWERS!!!
pogo the kosher penguin: Uhh, thanks. I think o_O;;
Dariel: ^__^ yes, thank you, very happy. I'm planning on following the original story line. sort of. Actually, I think I'm going to have lots of fun twisting things up and making messes! It's what I do best! I'll try and update as much as possible. Thanks!
Lydiby: yes ma'am! ^^
Mirakai no tenshi neko-jin: YAAAYYYYYYY! I'M GLAD YOU LIKE MIRAKAI NO TENSHI NEKO-JIN!!!!! ^^ heh
LOVE WITCH: Thanks. I know, it is brilliant, isn't it! LOL just kidding ^__^
Ruby: Thanks, they will. But not without a few messy twists. And I agree about the series ending. Thanks a ton for your review!
SJ: YESIREE! *salute*
A final note from the author: HELP-ISH! I NEED A BETA READER REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BAD! -.-;;; I make typos and sometimes my stories aren't happy because they're hard to read. ANYONE INTERESTED IN BECOMING A BETA REDER EMAIL ME SAYING SO! If I get no beta reader people, I will be sad. And if I'm sad, then the story goes down the toilet. So, beta! ^____^ Thanx, luv ya all!
~Azure
PS Dilandu loves flames. I'm not Dilandu. I like catching things on fire, as long as it isn't in my story. You send flames, I light random things in the story on fire. JUST A WARNING!