Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Following Jupiter ❯ Creep ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 10

Creep

When you were here before

Couldn't look you in the eye

You're just like an angel

Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather

In a beautiful world

I wish I was special

You're so fucking special

But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here.

*****

Waking up in a very different room, Leaunna tried to sit up but couldn't, there was something holding her down. She looked back and forth but didn't see anything in the dark room, although she remembered the fell of cold steal on her bare arms and forehead and realized she was in the scorers' room, a not so good place to be.

`Awake are we?' said an enticing and icy voice coming from the corning. It was Folken Leaunna Figured. `Don't worry, I'll let you go soon enough, but for now please don't struggle.'

`Why?' she asked as innocently as possible.

`Because you proved my theories, all of the hypothesis' and theories wrong and I want to know why. You fought with your inner-self and took control of your body, something I thought was impossible, until now anyway.'

`So what? Your going to probe me some and then make me take some shit so I can be your little experiment' she fumed.

`No, I'm not going to PROBE you with anything. But you might feel a slight burning sensation when this goes into you and you might have some weird dreams so I'm just warning you.'

`What! No!'

`Hey, listen, your very lucky to be alive, by-all-accounts, this doesn't make sense why you are alive when you should have been dead. You should have been dead when the doppelganger planned to kill you, but anyway relax'

`Relax?! How can you be so calm! You're going to torture me and you're calm as a blue fucking ocean!' She shook furiously, winding and twisting her body left and right trying to get loose but to no avail.

`Listen' Folken whispered tranquilly, `We can do this easy so no one gets hurt or hard and you'll get hurt so you can choose it doesn't matter which one it is, but your still getting the shot, and believe me it will hurt more if you try to avoid it.' Leaunna let out a prolonged growl and an exasperated sigh and relaxed as best as she could. She was still tense however.

`Thank-you' Folken gently shoved the tip of the needle into Leaunna skin and muscles and it flinched on its own.

It was as just as Folken said, although she made a mental note to herself to kick Folken when he undid her for saying a "slight" burning sensation. It was more like a wicked and terrible burning sensation that made her body go into a convulsion now and then. It flowed through her veins and felt like she was burning from the inside out. The pain was so unbearable that she passed out.

*****

`I just don't understand how this came to be' A cloaked figure said.

`It might have been, what Dornkirk called it, "fate"' the other suggested.

`Fate? Hmm? D'you really think that it would be considered fate? She could destroy our world.'

`Just like the other girl from the Mystic Moon, only this one might actually succeed, good thing Lord Folken figured it out before she got too out of hand'

`Power is a merciless thing no one knows how to use it.' The second cloaked figure said meagerly.

`If her powers grow, she'll possible be able to take out an entire army.'

`But, if we can convince her to join Zaibach's side-'

`Fool!' the clocked figure scolded. `One with that much power sees everyone as their enemy, the best way to deal with it is to kill her.'

`There will be no……… killing yet,' a voice from a corner said, `If she does join the side of Zaibach, that could finally mean revenge on Van and his putrid little dragon mecha of his.'

`That's not wise Lord Dilandau,'

`I didn't ask what was wise and what was not did I?'

`No sir' the first one cowered slightly, but not to show weakness.

`Then I purpose you keep your mouth shut,' He shouted at him. `Now when is she supposed to wake up?'

`Not for another day sir, at least'

`A day? What was the point of all this havoc anyway?'

`It was to see why she is able to contain her power so well. You see it shouldn't be possible.'

`Why shouldn't it be possible?'

`Someone at such a young age, having complete power over their own being when it goes ballistic……...' The man passed back and forth, eyes sunken into his head tiredly. `There is something else in her besides her power to control her demonic side' He placed his hands neatly behind his back and sauntered over to a counter with many bottles, substances and medical equipment on it.

The other being in the room spoke up. `We have found something odd in her DNA however, that might help us have a better understanding you do realize.'

`What?' Dilandau inquired insipidly.

`She has this strange demonic burden with her, but also we found traces of Draconian blood in her.'

`What!' Dilandau screeched. `She's one of them? That bitch' he hissed bitterly. `Why didn't she tell me?'

`Calm down Dilandau' Came Folken's voice, the new presence in the room. `It's not like she knew. There is a lot I've learned from her, and a lot of it I still don't understand fully myself, some of it is still hard to believe, it's strange.' Folken said curiously but knowingly.

`What things?' Dilandau spat out like venom.

`A while ago, a fairly long time ago, about 17 actually, my mother went looking for me. She ventured off in the forest where a traveller met her. This man said he would help my mother find her lost son. Over the period of two days she fell in love with this man and then disappeared off the face of Gaea no one ever saw her again after she gave birth to this girl, hence the Draconian blood, and her biological father, was one of the first of the demon race, therefore leaving it to the point that she is very much in control of her power and should be able to use it usefully when she begins to understand it little more better'

`Hold on a minuet, this is crazy, you're telling me that she is Van and yours sister?' Dilandau asked teeth gritted together.

`Half-sister really, same mother, different father, but I don't believe how she betrayed our father like that with another man only shortly after his death.'

`And how did you find all this stuff out anyway?' One of the sorcerers asked.

`In the caved-in research lab back at the Zaibach fortress, there are thousands of books and pages about this "clan" that I didn't even know existed until I backtracked what Dornkirk's research lab looked like. He had tonnes of books in the corner and I thought to myself, those could be rendered as useful, I decided to check it out and this is what I found out. Although there were many pages missing, it was a written report, progress really, as if Dornkirk had guided his fate altering machine that way'

*****

A bright light turned on above Leaunna's head and she stirred softly. Her lips parted in protest and she mumbled something. She squinted her eyes before opening them fully to see two figures looming over her. Both had beady eyes and were cloaked almost fully.

`She's awake much earlier that I'd imagined' one of them said in a sick horse voice.

`Indeed, especially after that……… experiment'

`Experiment?' Leaunna thought bitterly. She tried to move but realized she was still secure underneath the straps. Her throat burned and she couldn't talk, it was as if she forgot how too.

`Awake, that's amusing. Leaunna?' Dilandau spoke most calmingly as he walked over to her as if she was a startled animal. She attempted to move her head but her effort was futile. She glanced with her eyes over to the direction of the voice. She stared in Dilandau's eyes for a minuet before looking away again. She tried to speak again, but got nothing more then a squeak out, inside her head she was screaming.

Dilandau grabbed the nearest chair and pulled it towards the lab table and sat down on it backwards.

`I know you can hear me, demon, so listen well. Helping us will get you farther than you could on your own all right? Now cut the sinful thoughts about killing anyone at the moment and clear you mind of anything obsolete.'

`Clear my mind? How can I do that your putting all the crap in here!' she shouted in her mind. She blinked as if to say "okay"

`Van has taken something of mine, and I want it back' he said just as calm as before.

`Taken something? What?' she thought.

`While you were sleeping, he came here, probably to sought out whatever plan I had, which of course, included you, but fortunately he didn't find you. All he found was some important papers and a pendant; this is a special pendant you see, not too different than the one Hitomi had. Although, this one is a little more dangerous.'

`Pendant?' She attempted to speak again and managed to say, `Why?'

`Progress? That's interesting' said one of the sorceries behind Dilandau. Dilandau looked behind his should and the man backed away a little.

`Why? This pendant was made by Lord Dornkirk himself; woven by threads of the very same thing as fate itself. This one pendant had the power to change the course of destiny, to change feelings, to kill people… Dornkirk never did finish it completely, but it works nonetheless. If you get that back, I'm willing to give you your freedom.'

Leaunna blinked stupidly for a minuet. `Did he just say what I think he did? Has the love bug bit him again? Or is he lying?' she thought.

`Lie……... Insipid lie……… on your behalf……… maybe.'