Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Always With You ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Rayana landed in a meadow with the sun setting. She looked around in wonder. ‘Where am I?’ She thought to herself. She looked up to see two moons hanging in the sky.

“Where am I?” She said aloud as she looked around again. “Well it sure isn’t earth. I guess I got my wish. And I hope I never go back!” She screamed at the floating planet. She let a tear fall as she sat down to think. ‘Maybe someone saw that light, I’ll wait here…but what if they’re really freaking looking and want to suck out my brains?’ She got up and jogged over to a tree and easily climbed up it. “There now unless they find me, I’ll be somewhat safe, unless I fall out…meh.” She lay down on the thick branch and wrapped her feet as far around the trunk as she could letting her hands fall down so she could watch the meadow somewhat comfortably. She closed her eyes to wait for someone to show up.

It was dark before anyone did show up and she was still sleeping as the figures entered the moonlight.

Dilandau cursed the moons for reflecting their light off of his hair, allowing who ever might be near his position, but he also thanked them for giving him light to see by. He lead his personal Dragon Slayers into the meadow; Gatti, Chesta, Viole, Miguel, Guimel, and Dalet. He jumped down off of his horse to search the ground, he was sure that the light had landed here. He ran his hand over the flattened grass. He followed the trail over to a large tree where it stopped. He climbed up stealthily after signalling to his Slayers to come closer. He stayed aloft for a few moments, then with a crash Rayana fell out. She screamed and whined when she landed. Dilandau landed in a cat-like fashion at her side. His Dragon Slayers jumped down and blocked off her escape.

“Ow, you jerk.” She looked at the man beside her. “Hey you’re not green and slimy, that’s wonderful!” She smiled. He smiled back, only his was cold and wicked. She stood up and brushed herself off. “So…what’s you name?” She asked cheerfully looking down at him. He stood tall next to her.

“General Dilandau Albatou.” He smirked.

“Well I’m Rayana Seoran.” She stuck out her hand. ‘I think I should watch myself around them.’ She thought as she glanced quickly at the swords and armour of the silver haired men in front of her. He reached out and grasped her hand spinning her around, but before he had a good grip she had flipped him over, grabbed his sword and had it pressed firmly against his throat. Dilandau’s face read of such surprise as he looked up at her smirk. He felt a pressing against the arm that was closest to her. His eyes traveled down to where she had him expertly pinned her knee digging into his muscle as her other rested on his stomach. He looked up at her. She handled the blade quite well.

“Where are you from?” He asked, silencing the insults being shouted from his Slayers as they called for him to give them orders and tried to distract her long enough to free the General.

“Earth.” She jerked her head up.

“The Mystic Moon.” He replied.

“Sure…” She gave him a confused look.

“Let me up.” He began to sit up slightly but she slammed him back down, nicking his throat slightly.

“Um…no.” She smiled sweetly.

“Why not?”

“Because you’re going to kill me.”

“I promise I won’t.” She looked at him suspiciously. “I swear on my position as General of the Dragon Slayers.”

“How do I know that’s who you really are?”

“Lord Dilandau is not a liar!” Chesta yelled, joined by the others.

“Fine.” She got up quickly, still holding the sword. Dilandau stood and faced her.

‘Hm…she is strong. I wonder…’ Dilandau thought as she fell onto the ground. Chest stood over her with his sword out, he had hit in the head with the hilt of his sword. Dilandau jumped onto his horse and had the girl passed up to him, he laid her across in front of him, placing his hand on her back to keep her from falling to her death under his horse’s hooves.

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Rayana woke up to a splitting headache. She sat up and looked around. ‘Where am I?’ She asked herself groggily. The stonewalls reminded her of medieval dungeons. She face fell at the thought. ‘Those jerks! They knocked me out and put me in this cell!’ She looked around, ‘This dirty cell.’ She made a face and stood up.

The extra weight on her wrist caused her to look down. Her wrists her chained to the wall. She groaned and swayed as her head throbbed again. She raised one hand instantly to place in on the wall, but her hand didn’t seem to function properly and she fell to the side, luckily her shoulder hit the wall and held her up…until she fell backwards onto her butt.

‘This is no way to treat my ass that’s for sure.’ She thought as she sat up on her knees. She leaned against the wall and groaned as she begged for her headache to subside for a while but she received no mercy. ‘Where the hell is that bag of mine?’ She looked around. ‘Oh don’t tell me we left it in that damn tree!’ She groaned again. ‘This can’t be happening. I am chained to the wall on another world. I must have taken quite a fall off my balcony.’ She looked around. ‘But I don’t think I want to wake up just yet.’ She sighed and leaned her head against the cold wall, allowing the cold to help her head, she was sure that she had a fever. ‘I don’t doubt it, I’m probably going to get sick from being in here, it’s cold.’ She heard a cough… ‘I guess I’m not the only one.’ She sighed and closed her eyes. ‘Well I wonder what’s going to happen now. And what was up with that silver haired dude? Dilandau? What the hell kind of name is that huh? Dilandau, well I guess it just rolls off the tongue…like zipper…’ She smiled as she stifled a laugh. ‘That’s a great word. Wait a second…he said he was a General, General of what? Those cute boys…hm, they were fine…’ She smiled wickedly. ‘Mmm…they’d be pretty good, I mean if this is anything like our medieval times these boys have had more girl then any of the boys in my school…but who cares about those jerks, I hope a meteorite hits earth, so there.’ She made a face. ‘Ok maybe just a small meteorite.’ She smiled. She could hear the sound of boots coming down the hallway; she looked out of her barred wall. ‘Who the hell walks that loudly, my goodness!’ She sighed and rested her head on the wall. The creak of metal didn’t phase her.

“Look sleeping beauty is awake now.” She looked up and saw one of the boys from before, the one with the shoulder length brown hair.

“What do you want?” She looked back to the brick wall.

“Mmm…” The boys said. “I want something I can’t have…yet.” He smiled wickedly.

“Try ever.” She smirked back. The boys glared at her.

“Dalet, you got shut down.” Another boy said as he entered, his short brown hair shone from the torches in the hallway.

“Shut up Miguel.” The boy, Dalet, growled. Then stared at the girl as she smiled up at them.

“So boys, what’s up?” Rayana smiled sweetly at the boys dressed in blue.

“You’re coming with us.”

“Really.” She dragged the word out earning herself an odd look. “Well if you can get me where ever you’re going, I’ll be impressed.” She then smiled evilly. She stood up and stepped forward pulling the chains tight from the wall. The boys looked at her, seemingly alarmed.

‘She is fearless of us.’ Dalet thought as he looked at her smile. He walked around her calmly, then waited for her to slack the chains before he disconnected them from the wall. She stood calmly as Dalet tossed one of her chains to Miguel. The each had one chain, each one was attached to one of her wrists. She smiled as they started through the door, leading her. She planted her feet firmly and refused to budge, they noticed this when the chains became tight. They turned to face her and she smiled. “Come on.” Dalet rattle the chain slightly. She gave him an insulted look.

“I am not a horse thank you.” She growled then she walked forward once she was close enough she punch Dalet in the face. As he fell to the ground she dropped and swung her leg out and spun in an easy move to trip Miguel. She then took off at a run letting the chains drag behind her. Cheers echoed off the walls from the other prisoners. She grabbed a set of keys and tossed them to a cellmate, causing the cheering to become even louder. She raced down the hallway past another pair of boys dressed in grey armour, she quickly punched one in the stomach and elbowed the other in the side of the face. She then took off again, hiding from the next group of three she came across. She then took off again. She could hear rapid footsteps a good distance behind her. They were following. She listened. ‘Two I think, maybe three.’ She started to run faster. She could hear them yell as they turned the corner of the hallway she was one. ‘I guess the others had to squash that little thing I started in the cells.’ She smiled and sped up even more going all out. Suddenly her way was blocked by three boys who were dressed in identical armour as Dalet and Miguel. She stopped and glanced around. Dalet and Miguel were approaching fast, the only way she could see out at the moment was a pair of large black metal door to her right. She sighed and bent her arms so the grasped the cold metal chain. Dalet and Miguel smiled as they saw their comrades had stopped the girl from going any further.

“Boys, boys…is there any chance you’d move?” She asked innocently to the three boys blocking her path. They grinned cruelly as they advanced on her. Ray stood her ground as they came closer. She managed to give a good few hits, but before she knew it she was behind the black doors and in a dark room, she stopped fighting and pushed them all roughly away one or two at a time. She managed to duck one hit aimed for her head causing the boy’s fist to hit one of his allies in the face causing a small scuffle between the two.

“Hmm…” A drawling voice groaned. The boys all froze and stood straight. Ray looked at them and grinned.

“Jerks.” She raised her hand to her jaw and massaged it. “Which one of you…” A boy with curly hair caught her eye. “You?” She asked. He refused to look at her. “I thought so.” She walked over to him and backhanded him quite hard. “There ya go, we’re even.” She smiled and backed away from the boys. “So what the hell happened, this was getting interesting.” She head someone clear their throat behind her. “Buckley’s.” She said absently mindly without turning around. She heard movement behind her and someone groan. She turned slowly and saw three servants dragging a young man across the floor. She looked closely and saw bruises and wounds on his chest and arms. She watched as they exited through a side door. She then heard a slow, soft, low laugh. She looked up at the slightly raised platform. Her eyes travelled up the stairs and up the silver haired man, but her eyes were quickly averted to the source of a low growling noise. Stepping out from the shadows came a huge Great Dane like black dog. She watched as the dog came closer. ‘Well I guess I know what happened to that other dude.’ She stood her ground as the beast crept closer and closer.

‘Hm…going to try to be brave…we’ll see about that.’ Dilandau smirked as his pet creep closer to the tall blond who still stood still. ‘ Or are you just frozen in fear? But you look almost like a man with those clothes…’ Dilandau started to think as he watched the scene unfold before him.

‘Ok this is just a really big dog, I mean Troy has two just like them and they didn’t like me at first either, of course I did push Troy when they first met me…’ She looked at the dog, straight on. ‘It doesn’t hurt that much when they bite, but I guess this could also be like our second encounter with the dogs from hell…’ She stood her ground and raised her chin exposing her throat. She saw the dog hesitate for a fraction of a second as it was confused. She smiled and made herself look non-threatening yet strong at the same time.

‘What is she doing?’ Dalet asked in his mind. ‘She’ll be killed for sure, unless he stops this now.’ Dalet moved his chocolate brown eyes to the silver haired lord sitting on his throne. Dilandau looked at the Dragon Slayers for a split second, in that second the beast pounced, landing on her chest, knocking her to the ground. Dilandau stood up quickly but remained on his platform, he craned his neck to see what had happened, if his monster had killed her. He could hear the dog growling.

Ray lay under the dog as its paws dug painfully into her chest. She looked up at the fangs that were ready to bear down on her venerable throat. The dog’s growl died as she raised her hand to scratch its ears. ‘I bet with that guy as your owner you’re abused so you aren’t used to kindness are you?’ She thought as the dog moved off of her body. She kept scratching it and petting the now over grown puppy as she stood up. She looked up at Dilandau who had a look of surprise. His face then hardened.

“Thor go.” Dilandau ordered. To horror of the Dragon Slayers and their General, the dog stayed where he was, under this girl’s hand. “Thor!” He yelled, causing the dog to growl. Dilandau looked at the girl in horror but she smiled expectantly. Dilandau’s hand traveled quickly to the sword at his side. When she knelt down beside the huge animal and said something in it’s ear. The dog licked her face, then trotted off into the shadows. Dilandau looked outraged, ready to kill. He was beyond words. This girl was not only fearless but she challenged his authority and changed his own pet’s loyalties. ‘Man’s best friend!’ He yelled in his head. He looked at her, wanting to yell, scream, order her death…but he wanted that pleasure now. ‘You are going to suffer.’ He growled out loud, causing her to give him an odd look that enraged him even more. “Take her to my chambers, chain her to the wall.” He growled. Gatti and Chest picked up her chains and dragged her out of the room while Thor barked and growled at them.

“Thor! No! Stay!” She ordered. Thor growled softly and lay down, watching the Dragon Slayers as they left his former master to train.

Dilandau sat on his throne heavily and looked down at his pet, who looked back. "When will you turn on me?" He asked, Thor only growled. Dilandau stood suddenly, Thor growled again and slunk into a dark corner. "Now what to do with that woman. So very strong. But Thor is my pet, no one takes away my pet." He then yelled in frustration.