Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Salvation: In the Arms of The Angels ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: yeah! I got another chapter out! Hope you like it! Oh and the song in this one is from Sarah Brightman and its call the second element (2)

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Allen Scheczar woke from a peaceful sleep with a start by a shrill cry of a woman in agony.

He rushed out of his bed to get his robe and ushered himself out of his room towards the female quarters in his family mansion.

As he ran swiftly down the hall, the voice again screamed but was joined in its corus' of pain by a masculine voice also in suffering.

It was coming from his beloved sister's room who had only just returned a few colors ago after the Great War.

Fearing for her life, he kicked open her door as the screams died down to pants, pained whimpers and other less strong sounds of agony. Allen stumbled into her room still a bit fatigued from being awoken at the ungodly hour of midnight; he gazed at Celena's bed to find her panting and a form lying whimpering next to her. Both were drenched head to toe in blood.

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Dilandau stumbled up the stairs of the tower that leads to the plateau on the East Side on top of Allen's mansion, castle or whatever it is. He doesn't care, he just wants to get away from everything: Allen, his men, and the cell he was locked up in after Allen had discovered that he and Celena had finally separated. He had immerged from Celena's subconscious before; Allen had been nice then. The first time it had happened, Dilandau had awoken in the morning utterly bewildered as to where he was and how he had gotten there.

He couldn't remember anything after jajuka was killed; he suddenly remembered what happened to his dragon slayers, every detail right down to what they sounded like when they screamed their last at the feet of that cursed king of that little back water country.

The feeling of complete and utter loneliness seeped into every pore of his body and silent tears began to pour down his cheeks, he couldn't stop them. Allen had chosen that moment to come in to wake up his sister for the new day. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the great dragon slayer captain sitting on his sisters' bed…. crying. He had walked over, hugged him and comforted him, Dilandau begun to cling to his shirt, sob openly and repeated phrase's such as, `I'm alone', ` he killed them, all of them'.

Dilandau forcedly pushed the memories out of his head as he mounted the last step. They were lies, nothing but lies. Allen had only been kind to him because he knew his `beloved little sister' was just underneath the surface. He'd even went as far as to call him a brother and treated him like one (it had made Dilandau blissfully happy thinking he had a family that loved him).

Dilandau walked out onto the landing and sat down on the edge.

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Dilandau had been sitting there for quite awhile now, he didn't know how long but he knew it had taken Allen and the others to figure out he had escaped from his cell. He could hear them below scurrying around searching desperately.

A new noise greeted his ears. He looked to his left and saw a girl his age standing in the corner leaning against the railing singing a beautiful yet sad song out to the moons that were high in the dark starry sky. She was dressed in a fashion unknown to him, she wore a red silk dress that cascaded down her slim form and hiding her feet that it was pooled around them like a fountain. The sleeves flowed to her elbows like an up side down flower in full bloom. The wind tossed her hair playfully around her pale ivory face; he could only see a small amount of the side but he just knew that she was beautiful. He concluded that her hair looked like a river of honey flowing down to her waist.

He began to listen to her singing as he creeped off the railing and slowing made his way towards her.

`Burning fire

A light in the dark

Shining day and night for me

Flowing water

The source of our life

Covering the world in blue

Gentile air blowing

Caressing my face

The endless symphony…

Wasn't it you?

Who was filling my dreams?

The second element

With the power of life

Creeks are winding

Just seeking their way

Hardly trying to reach the sea

Rain drops falling

From the skies to the earth

Bringing life to you an me

Lakes of silence

A magical sound

Keeping secrets in the ground

A perfect harmony…

Oh wasn't it you who was breaking the light?

The second element

(And the rainbows arise)

Oh wasn't it you who was standing beside the second element?

(From the earth to the skies)

Oh wasn't it you who was filling me dreams?

Oh oo oh oo oh oo ohhhhh

Wasn't it you who was filling my dreams?

Wasn't it you who was filling the streams?

Wasn't it you who was breaking the light?

Oh wasn't it you…?'

She finished the song and turned to look dilandau in the eye smiling as though she knew he would come.

She opened her arms silently, still smiling as if offering comfort to his immense pain…and he accepted the offer. He collapsed into her warm embrace sobbing silently, `God, I'd never thought I cry so much let alone at all'. He could hear Allen and his men running up the stairs but it was slowly drowned out by the sound of his heart beating; the last thing he registered was a gentile kiss on the crown of his head before darkness claimed him.

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Disclaimer: I do not, I repeat do not own escalfowne! Although I wished I did, I wish every night on the first star if I could own it and it was real, but nooooooo, I can't! Its too much to ask….oh well, R/R plz!