Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Cryptic Knives ❯ Past The Mission ( Chapter 9 )

Past The Mission

In the spring, you will bloom,

Like her heart, through the blouse,

In the back of the ambulance,

As it turned and turned in the streets

One more turn won't you come back to me?

As it turned on its red lights,

You were turning into red roses

But I'm not giving up.

*****

It was a long trip back and everyone was tired, although no one really showed it. Delphi, however, was feeling under the weather ever since her spill into the water. She was feeling very light headed and couldn't focus on anything that was around her.

The only thing that she felt was the slight bobbing from the horses steady trotting. Her head was rolling around ominously as if she was about to break her neck and her eyes were threatening to close. While the rest of the group was getting farther and farther away, she seemed to be sitting on a horse that was walking in circles. She closed her eyes and fell forward, leaning on the horse's neck and quite close to falling off.

Sitting up she noticed that the sky had turned to a dark grey hue and everyone was out of her sight. She turned the horse in a complete circle but everything was the same.

`Hey' she shouted, as loud as she could muster. `Can anybody hear me? Chesta? Lord Dilandau' She grasped onto the horses mane a little tighter and continue to hold on while it trotted in an unknown direction.

`You led them right to us' came a cold and heartless voice. Delphi felt wave after wave of shivers go through her body at the sound of the icy tone.

`You're not going to live through this one' came another just as icy and heartless as the first.

Alas, came a third cruel and callous voice that whispered harshly, `You're such a bad little girl.'

`Stop that! Who's there! Show yourselves!' Delphi shouted and stopped the horse. She spun the horse around in circles and looked all over the vacant field and saw no one.

`You plan to save everyone?' the first unkind voice asked mercilessly. Delphi craned her neck around but there was nothing there but the darkness that was starting to take its toll on the empty field and her.

`You cant even save yourself' said the first chilling voice.

`Weak' One voice snapped out harshly.

`Not with that pedant of yours' the third laughed malevolently.

`Foolish child!'

`Little girl!'

`Rat!'

`Atrocious'

`Abject'

`Despicable'

`Unthinkable'

`You led them right to us' one said.

`You led them right to us!'

`You led them right to us' a second and third echoed.

`Now you'll be sorry,' the iced voice said and the voice showed his ghastly face right in front of Delphi's. `Try and recover from this one.' He said and went through her, disappearing. The horse reared on its hind legs and Delphi fell off, landing harshly on the ground as it ran in the first chosen direction.

She started to see double as the three remaining dead soldiers circled around her, chanting something barley audible.

`Get away from me.' She yelled, sitting up and trashing her arms when suddenly she just fell backwards, eyes closing.

*****

Delphi opened her eyes and everything was opaque. Light engulfed her but it was still hard to see. She wasn't able to think straight and when she tried to sit up from wherever she was sitting she and a really hard time and wavered. She grabbed the edge of the cool table she was sitting on with one hand and rested her head in her other hand, closing her eyes and letting darkness seep into her mind.

She opened her eyes again when she started moving and then found her self falling towards the floor in a fast pace. She tightly shut her eyes as if to stop the impact but none came. When she opened her eyes she was standing the middle of the room. Something ran across her sight and she shook her head with the fear that she was going completely crazy and then turned around to try and see the rest of her surroundings.

She saw everything sideways almost like her head was tilted. When she felt something warm, yet cool against her face she realized that she was on the floor, cheek in her own warm blood. She pushed herself up off of the floor into a sitting position and wiped the blood off her cheek onto her shirt.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw something move but didn't turn her head fast enough to see what it was. She couldn't find a voice to speak and so she just stood up and hung on to the closed thing, another table, shorter than the first and wood. She slid her hand across the table when something hit her leg but she forgot all about it when she found that she had just gotten a sliver.

`Ouch.' She mouthed as she tried to see where it went in to take out when she heard heavy breathing behind her. She whipped around and there was a huge dog bearing its teeth at her. Delphi spun around and the animal lunged itself at her digging its teeth into her shoulder, both falling to the floor. Finally she found her voice and a blood-curdling scream obtruded from her throat.

She struggled with the beast for several seconds when she saw another one approaching. She brought her fist up and tried to knock it off her but she had no such luck. The first animal released her shoulder and ran off but the second still advanced threateningly. Whimpering, Delphi held her bloodied wounded shoulder and looked behind her. Once again there was that blinding light, but this time some thing walked out and the animal was suspended in mid-stride, frozen.

The being looked Delphi in the face and suddenly she realized that it was herself she was looking back at.

`Wake up, or you're going to die.' The voice sounded distant and the ache in her arm was making her lightheaded at the moment.

`I said wake up' the voice was getting closer. `Wake up'

`Wake up, Delphi' it said. Delphi closed her eyes and sighed. When she opened her eyes the animal was making a charge at her. Delphi did her best to cover her face and screamed.

`WAKE UP!'

*****

Delphi opened her eyes to a bright summer sun. Her shoulder was sore and her head was throbbing but she wanted to sit so she tried, but it was too painful and she moaned in protest.

`You're awake, finally.' Said a voice that Delphi recognized.

`Dad?' She asked when the face of her father came into view.

`What?' the voice asked a little surprised. `I'm Chesta' Delphi blinked and then the summer sun faded into pastel firelight and her father dissipated into the pale skin and slender face of Chesta.

`Sorry' she whispered.

`What happened to you?' He asked. `We didn't even realize you fell behind for a while we imagine because when we found you, you were, well, like that.'

`I know, I'm sorry.' Chesta walked over to her and helped her up.

`So, what happened?' He asked.

`I don't know. I couldn't get away from them, they were everywhere.' She looked down at her hands.

`What were?'

`Ghosts.' She answered.

Chesta just looked at her. `I think you might have hit your head pretty hard, you're talking nonsense.' He answered

`What?' she asked quite sharply. He took his glove off and rested the back of his hand against the skin on her forehead. `I think you may be coming down with a fever, you should rest.'

`Why don't you believe me?'

`Rest now, seriously.' He said and then helped her back down on the bed.

`Why don't you believe me, Chesta?' she asked, looking at his back.

`I don't think ghosts could have done this to you, these were don't by animals.' He said.

Something flashed through Delphi's head when Chesta said the word `animals'. She saw herself on the floor with a huge dog biting her shoulder.

`Big dogs, things, I don't know what they were but they were really big and they tried to eat me. One bit me on my shoulder.'

`What?' Chesta remembered when he was in Folken's lab and a huge animal that resembled a dog attacked him. Folken had killed it and the sorcerers stepped in, they were experimenting on them or something.

`Just go to sleep ok.' Chesta said and then left the room.

`I don't want to sleep' she said but he didn't hear her. She just started at the ceiling for as long as she could but then, without realizing it, sleep clouded her eyes.

*****

All right, started this chapter a while a go and only finished the last half now. Hurrah! Ok, um please tell me what you think about this chapter ok…! You know give me a shout if you think it's getting to stupid or something or if I should continue or not.

Now if in fact that part above made any sense to anyone, congrats, uh………well, thanks for reading and please review.

Yours truly,

Sweet Roses ^ ^-