Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Hitomi, GirlDragonslayer ❯ Hitomi feels pain ( Chapter 8 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: OH MI GOSH! THANK YOU ALL! I just came back from NC and I logged in and I was like WOW you guys are great. Okay here are some thoughts back to my reviewers :

TiarellaCordifolia -thank you I caught the mix up name in chapter 3 but I can't find the other one…but as soon as I get time I'll look back at it closely and hunt down the other one! Thank you.

Pyro-At-Heart - oh mi gosh! I did not even know I had the box checked! Thank you!

takes out megaphone: all people that are anonymous reviewers you can review! :D

MysticalDreamer32- Oh mi god! I love you! Thank you! (in the friendly way of course! :D) anyway, I loved your constructive criticism cuz ya know if no one ever took the time to do it no one would get better… but on to the point, I really suck at grammar, Like from verbs to quotes if my grammar check didn't fix it….well we'll leave it from there…lol I know that my quotes for thinking are all mixed up I looked over it and I was like o she was thinking that…but after these two I need to go back and fix those…lol, o and the chesta thing…well…o thanks for the tip on Hitomi and Dilandau…and there development!

Back to the real author note: Okay I'm back from North Carolina and it was fun `cept everything closes really really early! And my hotel room had the crappiest cable I had ever seen in my life! But the hotel was a four star hotel…the Sheraton…get that! Anyway I was there for vacation and my dad's job…so I went to his meeting and I was sooo bored I was bout to go to sleep until I pulled out my little notebook and started writing….

Warning: Well, I was gonna do a in-depth lemon…then when I was writing it became a lime and as I continued…its more or less a orange…and then I was kinda glad because I do not want to rush my characters :D so I'm gonna keep it at an orange.

HITOMI, GIRLDRAGONSLAYER: HITOMI FEELS PAIN

Hitomi noticed that Dilandau did not even grimace as he stroked his bandage cheek. Ever since Van had given him that scar Dilandau's mood had become psychotic. He became solely focused on one thing, the destruction of Van. Dilandau seemed not to even notice her on most days, until she would try to leave his presence, and he would call her back. `And even now' Hitomi observed, `he was in no mood for any sympathetic action.' Hitomi watched as a body was sprawled to the ground. `Poor Gatti' she thought `all he did was try to help, telling Dilandau to stop stroking his cheek.' The answer to his statement was a hard slap.

Hitomi was getting tired of his babyish attitude. `Guess I'll have to take matters into my own hands.' Hitomi began to approach Dilandau.

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"We need to talk to Folken," the dog-face man said.

"Yes, he needs to know." Agreed the robed man.

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"Hitomi is working with Zaiback now," Van told his companions.

"Why would Hitomi betray us?" asked Merle. "I mean, I know Hitomi, she would never be bad…and anyway even if she is with Zaiback, she helped you escape…so that proves something."

"I agree with Merle, I mean she could even be held against her will" Millerna said.

`I know, I know the possibilities but she's working with my brother…yet if she is there against her will, well' Van's thought was stopped as he felt a pair of arms embrace him.

"It'll be okay Lord Van! Everything's going turn out fine!"

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Chesta sighed. After that Dragon boy had left nothing had ever been the same. Lord Dilandau's mood was so crazed that the only thing that would calm him was Tara, and Tara spending so much time with Dilandau that he had not a moment of telling her what he felt. Would he ever get the time?

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Fighting off her fear, Hitomi approached Dilandau's side. She needed to somehow improve Dilandau's attitude. She was almost there when she stopped for a minute, shocked at what she heard him muttering. "My face…my beautiful face…" on and on the mantra was repeated with some other words of "he ruined it and gonna kill van." Hitomi gathered her courage and spoke.

"Dilandau, Can I talk to you…"

Dilandau heard a voice speaking to him. He close his eyes and stopped his daydream of killing Van and focused on the voice…Tara…

"What do you want?"

"I-I need to ask you something."

"Get out!"

"Please."

"Leave me alone!"

"I'm not going to"

"Leave. Now. Or. Else!"

"Never, snap out of it Dilandau, your acting like a child!"

Dilandau jumped out from his seat and faced off to Tara. He raised his hand "This is my last warning Do not make me repeat myself."

`I don't care if he hits me, remember he's hurt and he needs comfort.' She gently traced his bandage scar with her index finger. Then she placed a butterfly kiss on his cheek.

Dilandau felt anger pouring out of him. He then grabbed Hitomi's wrist and half dragged her from the room.

Before Hitomi knew it she was in another room backed against a door. Dilandau was pressed against her, and as she opened her mouth to ask say something his lips silenced her.

Passion was ignited. Dilandau cupped her face, slanting his lips to make the kiss go deeper. But after a few minutes his hands became quite active.

One minute Hitomi was in flames…the next warning bells began to ring as Dilandau hands had crept under her shirt…she broke the kiss pushing Dilandau away.

Dilandau was not to be stopped. He tried to kiss her again but she dodged. "What the heck is wrong with you."?

"I-I just can't go through with this,

"That isn't what you were saying before,

That was before she saw a face, before she remembered what had just happened a week before. What she was beginning to do, what she was doing. `I'm betraying Van.'

"I'm sorry, but I just can't" Tears began to burn. She had got caught up in that web of lust, but she would always pine for Van, she would always like Van, even though Van was mean and inconsiderate at times…it was her fault he had been trapped here…because none of this would have happened. But yet there was that other part of her…that wanted him to go on, but she knew she could not. She did not know why she had let herself get caught up in the passion…but she could not go on.

"You can't YOU CAN'T! Your sorry you know that, Is it because of my scar…It's because of my scar, isn't it?"

"No, Its not" tears began to pour

"Then you had better explain to me why we couldn't go on"

`I would betray Van. How could she explain to him, there was someone else'?

"I'm not ready"

"Your not ready" he said in a half laugh. "You seemed pretty ready to me."

Hitomi was grabbed by her wrist and pinned to the wall. "The next time you start something, you will finish it." She was thrown to the floor.

Dilandau marched out furious. Slamming the door behind him. Leaving the confused girl to sob alone.

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Dilandau sat in his room drinking wine, when he heard a knock.

"What"

"Lord Folken would like to see you."

Dilandau sighed as he sat his wine down. `Stupid women, Stupid Folken…damn everyone!'

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Folken watched as an enraged Dilandau entered. "This had better be good Folken."

Folken explained to Dilandau how they had located the Dragon melef. He had suffered a lot on the Zaiback attack on Fried and was now spotted at a repair place in the sky.

"Why didn't you tell me he was at Fried, I could have met him there."

"I sent some of your `Slayers who took care of him.'

"When do you want me to meet him."

"Now."

"How many `Slayers?"

"Take them all except for the girl."

Dilandau smirked insanely "Looks like the fun is about to begin."

Dilandau walked down out the room, looking ready to kill.

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Hitomi felt better after she had cried. Not a hundred per cent, but better. Leaving the room she began walking down the hall to her room when she bumped into a figure.

"Dilandau" she gasped out.

"You. Your order is to stay here," looking over her shoulder he spotted some of his `Slayers "'Slayers, load your guymelefs…we're going Dragon hunting!"

Before Hitomi could react Dilandau had pushed past her, not looking back her way at all.

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<5 min later>

Hitomi arrived in the hanger, noticing most of the guymelefs were loaded and now becoming airborne…all except for two. She spotted a familiar face ran to greet him.

Chesta stopped as he heard a familiar voice call his name.

"Tara?"

"Chesta, what's going on?"

Chesta explained the orders he had received.

`He left me, why would he leave me?' `He surely can't be that mad…could he?'

Chesta knew he could not pass up this opportunity. "umm…Tara, I want you to know something."

"What, Chesta?"

"Well, that I know I haven't known you long, and well just know that I really like you, more like I love you…and that when I'm fighting, I fight for you. As soon as we get back I would like to go from there."

Before Hitomi was able to say anything, Dallet yelled out for Chesta.

"Well goodbye then, Tara" he hurriedly brushed a sloppy kiss to her cheek.

When he and Dallet had left. Hitomi fell to the ground. `Chesta likes me?' She started to giggle… `Boy, if only Millerna could see her now.' She instantly sobered… `She only liked Chesta as a friend, she would half to tell him that…but as for Van and Dilandau…She quickly strayed from that thought, and stood up. Looking at the sky she uttered a prayer for all the soliders that would be fighting, mainly for the safety of two.

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As Van saw the `Slayers approaching, he decided to go out and meet them. He ignored the protests from Merle, as well as Millerna, saying he was in no condition to fight. He would be okay. Before the battle with Freid, he was able to talk with a sorcerer from Millerna's country who told him about seeing the unseen…just like Hitomi.

He had also found out how to become his guymelef. He loaded up and went to meet the `Slayers.

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Lord Dilandau gave his `Slayers orders to stay spread out and remain visible.

Lighting began to strike overhead…yes, a battle was about to begin.

A grayish-silver guymelf landed in the middle of the Slayers.

The fight was on.

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Hitomi saw her pendant glow. Something powerful was going on. Her vision came back and she understood one thing, the bleeding, Dilandau's scar…the other stuff was still did not add up. She then was brought to a field, she saw all the melefs…and she could do only one thing, watch.

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Van blocked right and dodge left, manging a few hits. When they became invisible Van smirked, willing his body to calm he tapped into the power he knew and started to attack.

Dilandau watched, as the Dragon became a Demon. In a few minutes the battle tide was turned, in less than an instance all his `Slayers were gone…in just that moment…he was alone. But this could not be…this could not happen to him… he began to call them out one by one… "Miguel…." As he stared at the melef, he saw the red eyes. "A Demon….No, No, NOOOO!" he began to scream as Van rushed at him. But in that instant…he was stopped. Dilandau watched as the guymelf seem to fall. As Dilandau, saw the melef fall he raced off.

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Van could not have been happier, after had rid most of the `Slayers he had avenged most of his country, as well as, his sword master. He had one more person left to destroy before he could free Hitomi, he would get her back. As he neared Dilandau, intent on killing him, he was stopped, stopped by ghosts…and before he knew it…he was falling.

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"It is now your time." The man in black said to the dog-faced man.

"Yes, it is now my time, where will you be"?

"Explaining to Folken."

"What am I supposed to do with the girl from the mystic moon?" the dog-man asked.

"Do not involve her. Her time is up."

"He might not let her go."

"He has no choice. She must go back to the king of Fanelia. The man in black replied.

"And, if she does not wish to do so?"

"Let us hope that possibility does not come to pass."

"After I finish with Folken, I will collect the girl."

"All right" the dog-man said.

"Good, now let's be on our way, we have much to do."

They both departed.

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Hitomi watched everything. Tears begin to stream down her face, Van had slain everyone, all the `Slayers were gone except for Dilandau. She watched as Van fell…after miraculously not killing Dilandau. `Poor Chesta, poor Dallet, poor Miguel…Now she hated war even more…She had lost people she liked…she was never really close with any of them except, Chesta to a certain extent…but she liked them all, and never wished any of their deaths. But that was too late...Now her feelings were torn in two also, She wished Van hadn't killed them, and she wished Dilandau had not experienced this pain.

She knew why Van had to do it…but she had not want him to…it seems she was a traitor to both sides…because she had feeling for both men.

Hitomi heard the guymelef land in the hanger. She watched as Dilandau came out of it in a daze, spotting her, he dropped to his knees in front of her. He looked at her tears in his eyes. "They're gone, they're all gone."

Hitomi once more put her arms around him, trying to soothe him. Not knowing what to do or even say. She did start to get tears, too. She began to cry, not just for the `Slayers…but for everyone in this war, on both sides.

After a few minutes, she helped lead him to his room; he collapsed on the bed, not bothering to change. Hitomi lay beside him…and fell asleep listening to him silently weep.

A/N: was that any better….i think it was worse….okay review.