Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Following Jupiter ❯ Be Like That ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 2:

Be like that

She spends her days up in the north park,

Watching the people as they pass

And all she wants is just a little piece of

This dream, is that too much to ask

With a safe home, and a warm bed, on a

Quiet little street

All she wants is just that something to

Hold onto, that's all she needs

*****

`We have to find her. That pendant of Hitomi's might have had the power to find things and locate objects and alter fate but this is much more than that. If Celena does have that pendant were in for a rude awakening, but there's a chance just a chance that we might be able to find her before `he' uses it.' Said Allen, boarding the crusade.

`What's that supposed to mean huh?' Merle asked.

`Shh' Van shushed her, pressing his finger to his lips and narrowing his eyebrows.

`So……… what is that supposed to mean anyway' Van asked and suddenly opened his mouth in pain, but nothing came out as Merle jumped on his foot. He gave her a dirty look and she stuck out her tongue at him, giving him the same dirty look.

`What?' She asked innocently. `Well, you deserved it. You told me not to ask.'

`Children.' Allen said calmly. `It means that Celena is Dilandau, I never really figured that his presence was totally gone, I hear Celena cry at night' Allen paused a moment. `Since she is `him' I guess they share thoughts. Remember that man that came here, warned us about Hitomi's pendant? He said that it would bring great wrath over Gaea? It is known that there is this woman in Gaea who can reincarnate the long deceased, without parts of the body or a piece of the deceased's clothing.'

`So your thinking that Dilandau is taking the pendant so he can find this women so he can rejuvenate his Dragon Slayers so they can attack Fanalia? Again?'

`No. He can't use it'

`Hitomi.'

`No, not Hitomi there has to be another someone, who is probably unaware of its powers. That's how he can do it. Celena might be able to fight him off.'

******

`Stop, leave………me alone.' Celena cried meekly. She was lying in a forest near Fanalia, clutching a pendant that she knew too well, wishing for her other side to disappear, leave her rest for one night, just one more night.

She would change back and forth, between male and female, Celena and Dilandau.

`Get up! Stop feeling sorry for yourself' he screamed in her head. `And hurry up and get to that clearing'

`No' she held her head tight, screaming without noticing and she felt herself changing, felt herself transforming without will into the man who had control over her body for years.

`I really hate it Celena, when you wear dresses. Why couldn't you just ware some more comfortable?' by now he was at the clearing that he wanted to be in.

He raised the pendant and then lowed it again. `Hmmm?' maybe I should get some different cloths on wouldn't you say, dearest Celena. Unlike you I'm considered a freak when I wear dresses' His voice became thick with cynical laughter.

`I'm not already a freak Celena, just because I talk to you, out loud when there's nobody around.' He paused a moment to recall what he'd said. `Maybe I'll just talk low for a while,' he stated and started to walk somewhere for cloths.

When he finally found what he was looking for he stole them and left Celena's dress there, not as payment, but because he wasn't going to need it, and neither was she.

*****

`So do you think that he's going to go to Earth? To look for this unknown?' Van asked. Allen looked annoyed as he replied `Van! Don't you listen? I already told you he can't use the god damned pendant alright?'

`Are you sure?' Van inquired, looking skeptical. `You honestly know that he can't use it. Tell me that you know.' He was looking at Allen with a face of stone and walked closer to him.

`I'm sure………' Allen started to say but was cut off when Van's fist collided with his cheek.

`Liar! You can't be sure. Nobody can be sure. How are we sure that he ISN'T going for Hitomi right now, how do we know if it even IS Dilandau that wants the pendant?' Van yelled ferociously, a little hint of sentiment in his voice. Allen rubbed his cheek and stood up.

`Hypotheses ' Allen mumbled. Van's eyes narrowed and he cupped his ear and moved in closer trying to make Allen say it again, even though he heard him the first time. `What?' Van asked, `Repeat that.'

`Hypotheses' he shouted into Van's ear.

`Oh that's good! That's RICH! Hitomi could be in danger and all we have to go by is a HYPOTHESES? God what is the matter with you?'

`Van I may be wrong about Dilandau not being able to use it to get to earth but I am not wrong about him not being able to use to find that stupid woman and I am defiantly not wrong about Hitomi, he's not going to go after her!'

`Fine.' Van said though clenched teeth stubbornly. Allen just looked away with a slight grimace against the young king of Fanalia.

*****

`All right, I've seen that girl from the mystic moon do this millions of times.' He thought, holding the pendant to his chest. He was wearing some baggy pants that he'd stolen off someone's laundry line and a long sleeved white shirt. Soon enough a blue light engulfed him, surrounding him completely. There was a bright light, too bight to see out of and soon enough Dilandau felt his feet coming off of the ground and he was sent to, what he believed was, the "Mystic Moon."

*****

Leaunna was walking down the street humming a tune with a bag of groceries in hand, when she heard a sort of muffled moan coming from the bushes beside her.

She stopped and looked around. Then it came again and she looked beside her. Her eyes widened and she cautiously stepped closer. `Hello?' all she received was another moan. Afraid of what she'd find, either some one seriously hurt, or someone just whacking off in the bushes (which would be highly unlikely), she edged closer. She pushed the bushes apart and there was a man sprawled on the ground behind a row of bushes semi-conscious.

She brought her hand up to her face and placed the groceries on the ground beside her and gasped, `Oh my god! Are you all right sir?' she kneeled down beside him and shock him. He made some sound of life, but she still shook him until he rolled over and his eyes flickered a little, looking up at her face, which was filled with concern.

`Hi! My name is Leaunna Cartwright. You have most likely been a victim of rape or robbery,' she coughed to clear her throat, `or perhaps both'

`What?' he asked, sitting up while holding his head, `I wasn't raped. Was I?'

`I don't know' she shrugged. `It is awful hard to rape a guy, usually there willing' her expression was blank and her voice was flat.

`Where do you live?' Leaunna shifted weight on her knees looking at the dumbfounded stranger.

`Wha… well… I… umm… very far from here?' he supposed.

`Well, any who you can come to my house, I'll take care of you and then I'll take ya back to where ever the hell ya live.' She smiled sweetly. `Oh we better hurry up, come with me' she held out her hand, but he didn't grab it, he got up by himself. She closed her hand and brought it back to herself. `Okay' she whispered to herself.

`C'mon' she yelled, grabbing her groceries and running to a bus stop. The bus started to slow and then come to a stop. She practically dragged the man behind her.

`What it THAT?' he asked, eyes a gleam.

She looked matter-of-factly at him and said with intellect, `It's a bus. A means of transpiration when Larry can't get off his fat ass and go get his own groceries' she shoved her hand into her pocket and deposited fifty cents into the payment box.

`C'mon' she gestured to him. He shyly walked up the stairs and she grabbed his hand and made him follow her. No matter how he struggled he couldn't escaper her grip, and he didn't exactly want to make a scene so he just followed him to where she lead him too.

The ride was a bumpy, long, and quiet. Maybe a little unnerving, on the man's part.

Leaunna, however, broke the silence while eating a snickers bar. `So,' she asked while chewing, waving the chocolate bar around. `What's your name anyway?'

He looked at her and smiled viscously. `My name? Why do you want to know?'

`Oh don't be so huff-ay' she complained. `Oh get ready to get off, my stop is just ahead.'

`How do we get off?' he asked, being completely serious.

`Uh?' she mocked stupidly. `D'I don't know? Maybe the same we got on?' she rolled her eyes and shook her head and then stood up. `Come on'

About ten minutes later the man was complaining. `I want to get his over with' he thought. `Maybe I should grab her and get it over with. But then that Larry character will be expecting her……… after that.' He suggested.

*****

`Larry, I'm home. Here are your stupid groceries.' She yelled to Larry then she turned to the stranger and said warmly, `Come on in'

`Bring them to me' she heard him yell. She was thinking why he couldn't just get what he wanted and not leave a mess in the living room, but it wasn't as if she cared, she was never in there anyway.

`I'm busy,' she started, `get off your fat ass and get your own crap!' she yelled back.

`I will slap you bitch,' she could hear footsteps ringing through the household as he came marching.

`You can never keep your god damned mouth shut can ya bitch? I'll teach you a… who the fuck is this?' Larry asked nodding towards the boy.

`This is………a friend' she had forgotten that he didn't have a name or a name that she could call him anyway.

`Friend my ass' Larry walked over to Leaunna and slapped her. She grabbed the edge of the sink for support.

`Hey!' the man said pushing him out of the way.

`I need her. Only I can do that' he emphasized the word I. Leaunna looked shocked and didn't understand but she knew that she her hospitality was over welcomed.

`Umm I think I you should…' she whispered.

`Shut up!' he yelled.

`OK' she whispered quickly. He seemed so helpless earlier.

`Get the hell out of my house all right I don't want any trouble' Larry said. `If you don't I'll have to make you'

Larry was a tall burly man with his share of love rolls. He had long greasy back hair, which was on its way to turning grey. His small, beady black eyes glared through the man.

The man punched Larry in the face and Leaunna took this time to scoot outside. By now the two men were completely riled up, punching and hitting each other, the dog was braking constantly. Leaunna was outside the door but had to go back in for the dog, she was too afraid she might get hurt. She stood at the door calling and calling and finally when she came, the man grabbed something he thought was a sword and cut Larry's throat, blood spurting everywhere. Leaunna shrieked and grabbed the dog by the collar and ran the dogs of hell were chasing her, and in her opinion their master was.

As fast as she'd gone out that door, he was after her. She was too scared to scream, it was always getting caught in her throat. She been running so hard, so fast and so long that her legs started to turn numb and she started to slow. When she felt a pair of arms around her she screamed as she was thrown to the ground arms getting cut by gravel, the boy landing on top of her.

`Get of me please!' she screamed, her dog barking wildly at the stranger. He kicked the dog and she heard her yelp.

`Don't hurt her' she chocked.

`I like to over-power people, it's fun'

`Your going to rape me, aren't you?' she wiggled beneath him crying like a child. He'd pinned her hands above her head and he was straddled over her.

`I'm not going to rape you…' he said with a smirk. `Yet. I need you, like I said' he rolled off her and grabbed her arms having her arms and back to his front.

He attempted to knock her out by hitting her in the head but the only thing that happened was a scream of pain, more tears and more struggling. She started to kick and buck her hips weakly.

`Fine' he breathed. Her cheeks were now stained with hot sticky tears.

`Please' she whimpered. `Don't hurt me' her struggling became weak, and her legs stopped moving; she began to feel tired, her eyes starting to close and she relaxed in his arms falling more into his chest. Taken aback by this he dropped her. She fell to her knees and gagged.

`Get up' he ordered. She looked up at him, all puffy-eyed and red in the face from crying. Her mouth stuck together like her tongue was glue. His face distorted and he narrowed his silver eyebrows. He bent over and grabbed her waist.

`You better hang on, I wouldn't want to drop you now'

`No' she protested quietly.

`Fine, I'll just drop you then' She believed he would do it, but she didn't know where he was going to drop her from, the place was basically desolated except for some corn stocks and a few trees.

The man took out a pendant out of his chest pocket. It was a pearl pink color; Leaunna recognized it but couldn't put her finger on it al all. She saw him raise it above his head and then she could see a faint blue line streaking down from the sky. It swallowed them both up in its beautiful blue light. As she felt her feet come off the ground she whipped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist putting her face just under his neck where she tightly shut her eyes.

`Gaea?' she whispered before she drifted of into a deep slumber in his arms.