Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ A daughter's discovery ❯ The journey begins ( Chapter 1 )
A daughter's discovery
My name is Laya. Just Laya so far. My mother never called me anything else than that. And she never told me what my family name was. She didn't tell me lots of thing, especially things concerning my father. Me and my mother had always lived alone as long as my memory reaches back. We lived a peaceful live, far away from the rest of the world, in a peaceful small forest. We lived from what the forest gave to us and what we grew ourselves. We didn't recognize what was going on in Gaea, due to our exclusion. So I never learned anything about the Gaean war until-
But let's not talk about that yet. There is another story that needs to be told first.
So there we were, me and my mother, living long years in peace and happiness. But then, my mother grew old and weak. And one day, I found her dead in her bed. I buried her on a small hill and after some time of mourning, I took my opportunity to finally find the answers I was seeking for. Especially the answer to the question "Who is my father?"
Packed with some stuff I considered necessary, I began my journey.
I traveled all way through the forest, following the sun's way across the horizon. Then, I suddenly heard a rustling in one of the bushes around me and soon, a very strange-looking and huge animal was hunting me. I ran and ran, until I reached the end of the forest, which was at the same time a very high cliff. I was trapped. Either I was going to be that thing's next meal or I would fall. Since being eaten was not my imagination of a nice death, I gathered all my courage and jumped.
I fell and fell and each second, my fear grew stronger. All muscles within my body tensed. And that was when the most unimaginable happened. I had a strange feeling in my back and then heard a rustling sound, like feathers in the wind. As soon as I was a bit clearer in mind, I realized the huge wings that had come out of my back and instinctively used them to make my way down safely.
This was something so unexpected and unbelievable. I HAD WINGS! Huge wings with silvery gray feathers. I moved them a little up and down. They looked gracious, but at the same time frightening. I mean, I just never heard of people with wings. So this was another secret that had to investigated.
I don't remember how long I had been traveling. I stopped counting the days after a while. I only slept when I had a safe place to sleep, which was not often the case. So soon enough, when I had eaten all the food I had taken with me, I was really hungry and tired. But there were still no houses or other signs of people in sight and I kept on walking across the plain I had reached about two days ago or so. But I seemed to have underestimated myself, cause my legs suddenly refused to carry me and just gave in upon my own weight. I fell and hit the ground. I wasn't able to use the wings I had discovered earlier, cause I had found out that using them for a longer while was even more tiring than walking. So now I laid there, exhausted and dirty, my stomach rumbling. I couldn't walk anymore. I was so tired. So I finally gave in to unconsciousness.