Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Following Jupiter ❯ Doppelganger ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 9

Doppelganger

Who comes to me wearing my own face

As dull as ache with eyes of empty space

What is its name, why this restless haunt

What do you want?

Doppelganger

What have I done that you come to me?

Your vacant stare takes the soul of me

Your frigid grip, rigid claws that clutch

I fear your touch

Doppelganger

*****

Leaunna opened her eyes to a dark room. Memories of the previous night that made her blush and she quickly remembered where she was, but Dilandau was nowhere to be found. She sat up and felt warm instead of her cold shell that was always carrying around her, and not to mention a little sore. Still she couldn't believe that Dilandau said he `loved her', he didn't say that he liked her, or that he wanted to be with her he said that he `loved her' and she didn't say anything back. She pondered if was true.

`Not very plausible' she whispered and got out of bed and pulled on her cloths. `But not unlikely.' She wondered what she'd do today. Maybe Dilandau would let her go outside, since he cared for her and he let it show, or maybe not.

She shrugged it off and wondered about looking for Dilandau. She had a fine idea of where he was so it wasn't that big of a deal. First off she would check around for the training room since she remembered him mentioning it last night. She carried her way down the halls looking in random rooms until she came across the right door. It was lined with gold and wasn't much like the other doors. It pushed open instead of automatic. Leaunna pushed it open and stood there watching some of the Dragon Slayers fencing. Dilandau standing in the corner and watched the Dragon Slayers work hard at what they were trying to achieve. All he was doing was standing there spinning the epee in his hand.

She figured he hadn't noticed her, but she didn't catch the pair of eyes that followed her every movement Leaunna made over to him.

`Good Morning' she sang.

`Get out of here. Now.'

`Pardon me?' she asked, a little shocked by his un-concerned tone.

`I told you to get out, you're not supposed to be in here'

`You didn't tell me I couldn't so you know'

`Yes, but-'

`Anyway! I came her to ask you a question' Leaunna said, this caught his attention and he didn't say anything but his expression told her to continue.

`Well, maybe you could let me go-'

`No, you cannot.'

`You didn't even know what I was going to say!' she stomped her foot and raged at him.

`You were going to ask me if you were able to go outside, I know and my answer still remains no,' he said coolly.

`That's relevant!'

`Look, I don't understand what your thought on last nights `actions' but what ever happened was probably the cause of alcohol but it wasn't anything special' Dilandau whispered in an undertone. There was a small growl from Leaunna and then there was a loud slap and everything was quiet.

`I despise you; but I can't shake any feelings I have' she nothing but whispered and then started to cry and then ran out of the room, many pairs of eyes watching her as she ran out.

Every pairs of eyes turned on Dilandau glaring after her as she sped out, many whispers going around like, `did she just hit Dilandau sama?' and `She might not make it to supper, if she's lucky.' Dilandau's cheek was slowly turning a softer pink as his magenta eyes fumed with anger. He then gave out a slight laugh and in one swift movement threw his epee on the floor, and walking past the shocked slayers saying, `Do I have to tell you to get busy or do I have to make you!' he shouted bitterly as he slapped the nearest Slayer and left.

Leaunna was rampaging though the halls looking for a way out, she knew there had to be one way or another. She opened one door after another and then she came across the medical wing when an idea struck her.

*****

It only took Dilandau a matter of time before he found Leaunna sitting cross-legged in the chair beside the bed in the hospital wing. She was humming a tune to a song, while a semiconscious Gatti lay beside her. Between her fingers she was holding a bloody dagger, subconsciously spinning it once in a while.

Dilandau's eyebrows knitted together at once and he hissed, `what have you done this time demon?'

`Nothing' was her reply, as innocent as ever. `But if you don't let me go, I will do something, whether it be myself or him……… or you' She held the dagger on it's side pulling it out from between her two fingers and thumb, making new fresh blood lines. Dilandau started to walk forward. Leaunna shot her eyes towards him and raised the dagger above the sleeping slayers face. Dilandau stopped and glared.

`What are you planning to do kill him?'

`Yes,' she said coolly.

`You couldn't do it.'

`Sure I could. Watch me' but she didn't move her hand from above his face.

`What are you waiting-' Dilandau stopped in mid-sentence when he saw Leaunna's face distort with confusion. She shushed him.

`What do y-' Dilandau heard it too, loud noises coming from outside the fort getting closer and closer. By now things were starting to fall off the shelves and making it very hard to stand without stumbling.

`What's that?' Leaunna whispered. Dilandau shrugged and turned around saying, `I'll deal with you later, enjoy life while you still can' and then left out the door.

`You're a little low to be saying that Dilandau Albatou' she said in a low, manly voice. `I'll teach you to mess with my family' she got up and she transformed back into her original state. `You did prove yourself useful, both of you actually' said the person who slowly transformed back into an ugly, blue-gray looking shape shifter. `You played your part well, although that last part was a little unexpected. You'll die soon so then you wont have to worry about your little lover ever again I'll take good care of him, send him to meet his doom with Zongi' He walked out and left a semiconscious, bleeding Leaunna on the floor in the corner or the room.

*****

Leaunna was lying on the floor staring at the ceiling; hand over the wound on her stomach, breathing heavily. She turned her head to the side to look at something. She felt a sharp pain in the side of her rib and then her head lolled to one side, her eyes still open. Her breathing was slowly stopping until her chest rose and deflated one more time and then it stopped. Her body began twitching uncontrollable. Her pupils dilated completely all that was left of her eyes were white orbs and she started to make shallow screams.

Gatti, who heard these, sprang up in his hospital bed and clutched his side. His eyes widened with shock as he saw the figure on the floor going in and out of cardiac arrest Gatti, despite his discomfort, jumped off the bed and shoved the pillow he grabbed under her head so she wouldn't hurt her. Suddenly she stopped and closed her eyes. Gatti bent down again and she opened her eyes Gatti gaped at her for a minute.

`Kill, he's going to kill……… him……… it………will……… kill me……… wants to kill me……… he wants to kill him' She said slowly.

`Who's going to kill who?'

`I am' She stated. She arched over into Gatti and she started coughing. Gatti looked at her in utmost shock and couldn't do or say anything else until she screamed and pushed him away.

Gatti looked at her and that's when he realized something was wrong with her. The cut on her cheek was slowly disappearing and was the gash in her stomach. Slowly but surely she began to feel that distinct burning feeling in her hands and then it began pulsating though her whole being, just like last time. She began to feel thing poking and prodding her skin, feeling her nails grow painfully, everything was done so painfully.

Leaunna looked up, now as the demon she was, she stared at Gatti with those white orbs. She looked like she was ready to attack, although it looked like something else was holding her back. Her head twitched from side to side and then she started to walk to the door and cut though it.

`Can………do………this…R 30;…must be……… strong……… can be………Arghhhhh' Leaunna screamed inside her head trying to counteract everything that Dilandau and Folken said would happen. She was trying to control the monster within her being and it was working. She sauntered up to where her room was and it opened for her. She went over to the wall where she remembered the tapping the previous day and started slashing furiously as it. Blood began to trickle down her fingers and onto the floor around her. When she finally got a hand though, her palms and fingers were very, very bloody.

She stepped outside and looked around, it wasn't day at all it was actually very dark, with the exception of the light that was radiating off of Leaunna. She turned the corner and it appeared that the big crashing noise earlier was a dragon. Not just any dragon, it was a Red Dragon. A very rare Fire Breathing Red Dragon and only Dilandau and two other slayers were fighting it off. Leaunna started walking forward hand outstretched towards the dragon, or so it seemed and the Dragon stopped dead in its tracks, and so did everybody else that was there, including the doppelganger.

Her slow walking started into a sprint and then in to a run. She ran right for the Dragon slashing it across the face and then tuned slightly and with her other hand she drove her already bloody claws though the doppelganger.

`You kill me……… and I kill you' she whispered in a very demonic voice to the doppelganger before she turned her claws upright and drove them up into his heart and then pulled them out. He fell backwards and Leaunna closed her eyes and collapsed as herself again.

`I could not let you kill Dilandau'

`I knew he was there, he wanted revenge' Dilandau said bitterly

`Why, then……… how come you didn't do anything to stop what he was planning to do?'

`I was going to make sure he was going to meet the same filthy end as Zongi.'

`That, that, that is very terrible, how in the world could you accomplish that?'

He started to pick her up and she weakly opened her eyes and she looked face to face with Dilandau and asked him meekly, `Why do I love you?'