Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ The Happy Sequel To Escaflowne ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

SCENE 20: Int. Late night. Hallway of castle. SHESTA is walking down the hallway to Celena's room, with the feeling that something is not right.

Author's Note: MISS CLAVELL: Something is not right!

Remember that from those little animated MADELINE movies?

SHESTA enters Celena's room to see CELENA lying on her bed on top of her covers, wearing a white nightgown. She is visibly trembling, her hands tightly gripping the sheets, her eyes extremely wide open.

SHESTA: Celena! Are you okay?!

CELENA does not seem to notice. SHESTA tries shaking her but to no avail. SHESTA disappears from Celena's room.

SCENE 21: Int. Allen's room. ALLEN is asleep peacefully. Suddenly, however, ALLEN is somehow pulled out of bed and is dangling upside down in the air, held by some unseen force.

ALLEN: WHAT THE *HECK* IS GOING ON?!!!!!

SHESTA's voice is heard, even though SHESTA cannot be seen.

SHESTA: Oops! I forgot I was invisible!

ALLEN: SHESTA...?!

SHESTA turns visible and drops ALLEN. ALLEN lands on the floor in a heap and looks up, brushing his hair out of his face.

ALLEN: SHESTA! WHAT THE *HECK* ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!!

SHESTA: (shrugging, not apologetically) Well I looked in on Celena and she seemed to be having some kind of problem so I thought you might want to see what's going on.

ALLEN: WHAT?! WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN HER ROOM ANYWAY?!!!!

SHESTA: (in mocking tone) Well, she's such a LITTLE girl that I checked in to see if she was still breathing....

ALLEN: (glaring at SHESTA) OMAE O KOROSU, SHESTA!!!!

SHESTA: This takes me back y'know. I give someone information and he yells at me....

ALLEN: Don't you dare compare me to him!

SHESTA: Don't you think coming from me it would be a compliment?

ALLEN: Damate! Anyway, let's go find Celena.

SHESTA: Okay. But she's in her room.

ALLEN: I KNEW that. Figure of SPEECH, Shesta.

ALLEN and SHESTA walk out of Allen's room into the hallway. There, HITOMI, VAN, and FOLKEN are assembled. HITOMI is rubbing her eyes. All three look concerned.

VAN: Allen, what's going on?

HITOMI: Why were you yelling?

ALLEN: Well...I had a little VISITOR who decided to wake me up by dropping me out of bed onto the FLOOR!

FOLKEN: Shesta? Why would he do that?

SHESTA: Kicks?

HITOMI: 0.0

ALLEN: I'll show you kicks!!!!

ALLEN kicks in SHESTA's direction, forgetting again that SHESTA is a ghost. His toe smacks into the wall. He begins hopping.

ALLEN: OWWWW!

SHESTA: Figure of speech, Allen

FOLKEN: Ah yes, a nighttime display of forgetfulness

SHESTA: I'd say stupidity.

ALLEN: HEY!!!!

MILLERNA enters, bewildered.

MILLERNA: What's going on?

ALLEN: OWWWW!!!!!!

VAN: Good question. I'm not quite sure.

HITOMI: Well....I know that Allen just kicked a wall, but....

MILLERNA: I've heard of hitting your wall, but that's not usually the definition I'd give for it.

SHESTA: He didn't hit it, he kicked it.

FOLKEN: Anyway, Shesta, why did you wake Allen up?

SHESTA panics, having momentarily forgotten his "mission"

SHESTA V.O.: Oh my.....!

SHESTA: Celena's having some kind of problem! We have to go see what's wrong!

ALLEN: Yes! Let's go!

MILLERNA: I'll come too. Maybe I can help.

HITOMI: I'll come, too.

VAN: And me.

FOLKEN: me too.

They all set off for Celena's room. Along the way they are joined by ERIYA and NARIA who have come to look for FOLKEN and DRYDEN who has come to look for MILLERNA. SHESTA pushes the door open to Celena's room and everyone follows him inside to see the same scene SHESTA saw earlier.

ALLEN: What's going on?

SHESTA: I don't know.

ALLEN: CELENA!!!!! CAN YOU HEAR ME???? ARE YOU OKAY???

CELENA: HELP ME, ALLEN!!!!!! HELP!!!!!

CELENA starts thrashing in her bed.

ALLEN: Millerna, what's wrong with her?

MILLERNA: I don't know....

CELENA screams. JAJUKA runs in.

JAJUKA: What's wrong, Celena?!

JAJUKA looks around and sees everyone else in the room.

JAJUKA: What's wrong with Celena?

MILLERNA: That's what we're trying to figure out.

CELENA: NOOO!!!! DON'T!!!!! IT'S BURNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYONE: 0.0

SHESTA: I think she's having a flashback.

VAN: (sarcastically) No, really!

JAJUKA leans over CELENA and tries to soothe her.

JAJUKA: Shhh...Celena...it's all right....that's over...c'mon now...wake up....

CELENA: BUT HE'S SETTING IT ON FIRE!!!!!

MILLERNA: We have to wake her up before this gets any worse.

HITOMI puts a hand on CELENA's leg.

HITOMI: Shhh...it's okay..wake up now....

MERLE scampers in.

MERLE: Did you learn how to pee yet, Jajuka? What's going on here, anyway?

HITOMI: Celena is having a flashback. We're trying to wake her up before it gets any worse.

MERLE: Oh...

JAJUKA: And I'll have you know, I know how to pee.

VAN: Thank you SOOO much for that information?

HITOMI: Everything you ever wanted to know about dog people, as well as many more things you didn't?

MERLE leaps onto CELENA's bed and starts poking her in the side with both hands. CELENA wakes up. There is a terrified look in her eyes. She grabs MERLE's shoulders.

MERLE: Wha...?

CELENA: Thank you, Merle.

MERLE: Hey...all it took was poking her!

CELENA: What...what happened?

ALLEN: Are you okay, Celena?

CELENA: Yeah...but I had this really vivid---dream---that I couldn't wake up...and there was this guy....in a guymelef... he had these scary eyes...and he was setting things on fire...was he Dilandau?

VAN: That fits the description pretty well.

CELENA: It was really scary....!

CELENA hugs MERLE

CELENA: Thank you so much for making me wake up!

MERLE: You're welcome....

ALLEN: Are you okay now?

CELENA: Yeah...I'm fine.

EVERYONE leaves but CELENA. EVERYONE begins to go their separate ways, but ALLEN walks in front of SHESTA.

ALLEN: Shesta, can I have a word with you?!

SHESTA: (flippantly) sure.

ALLEN: You know, it's all your fault that Celena is having these flashbacks. You should leave before you cause her any more of this horrible pain.

SHESTA V.O.: Oh, so it's expressly MY fault? I might disagree with that, but...

SHESTA: (same flippant tone.) sure. I'll leave

SHESTA disappears.

ALLEN: Wha...? He just...disappeared!

MERLE: You know, Celena's going to be really mad when she finds out.

VAN: You know...knowing him...he isn't gone for good.

SCENE 22: Ext. A meadow. The DRAGON SLAYERS except SHESTA are there, as well as SORA.

DALLET: And remember when you went into that house and were terrorizing that little boy and his parents wouldn't believe he had a monster in his closet?

GUIMEL: Oh yeah...that was fun. We should do it again sometime.

GATTI: It was better back when we could torment Van.

VIOLE: Yeah....if SHESTA wasn't deciding to follow that little girl.

GATTI: (sing-song voice) Shesta and Dilandau-girl, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

SORA: And it was fun fighting with those two cat girl over Folken....

DALLET: I don't see why Folken would be so desirable, but....

GATTI: If you did you'd have a huge problem...

VIOLE: Why?

SHESTA enters.

SORA: So, you're walking in that direction? Going to see if the legend is true?

DRAGON SLAYERS: ?

SHESTA: Yes. Hello, all.

GUIMEL: Hello Shesta! Are you back?

SHESTA: No.

DALLET: Did you and the Dilandau-girl have a FIGHT???

GATTI: Yeah, or did you get bored of her?

SHESTA: Neither. I just wanted to say goodbye to you guys.

DRAGON SLAYERS: Nani...?

SHESTA: Well...I was just thinking, after this--I probably won't ever see you again. I just wanted to stop by because..well...once we were comrades, and I wanted to acknowledge that...even though we are of a different mind now...our former camaraderie.

SORA nods, understanding. The DRAGON SLAYERS however stare at SHESTA, uncomprehending.

VIOLE: Wha....?

DALLET: What the *heck* is wrong with you, Shesta?

GUIMEL: Hey, he's abandoning us!

SHESTA: I was hoping you would react with more maturity.

GATTI: OOooh!

DALLET: Where's it you're abandoning us to, anyway?

SHESTA: Well...I'm going to try...to see if...I can...if I am now worthy of life.

SORA: Good luck.

VIOLE: Hey, good idea! Let's go with you!

SHESTA: I'm really sorry, but, to be honest, I don't think you'd cut it.

DALLET: HEY!

SORA: You Zaibach soldiers aren't around honest people very much, then, are you?

GUIMEL: Hey, everyone is ganging up on us!

GATTI: If you're not one of US anymore, Shesta, then are you.....

DALLET: For VAN?

GUIMEL: I bet you don't even haunt him anymore.

GATTI: I bet you don't HATE him anymore.

VIOLE: I bet you want to...

DALLET: Ewwww!

SHESTA: I know you think about things a little differently, Viole, but I never thought about guys that way. And I was always wondering, why you had such a problem with the fact that I liked to check out girls.

VIOLE: HEY!!!!!!

DALLET: Well now we know why VIOLE followed Dilandau so earnestly.....

VIOLE: Omae o korosu Dallet to Shesta!

SHESTA: You have the same problem that Allen has.

SORA: Not exactly. Do you know what ghosts can do to each other?

SHESTA: What?

SORA: I don't think you want to know.

SHESTA: All right, (turns to DRAGON SLAYERS) anyway, all you've done is proved my point. You can't react any way but violently.

DALLET: ....? Shesta????? What do you mean? You insulted him!

VIOLE: Shesta!!!!!!!!

SHESTA: Anyway, I just wanted to say goodbye, even if you can't appreciate what I mean, I wanted to recognize the connection I once had with all of you and to tell you...that I officially leave your group. But if any of you care, TECHNICALLY I'm being more loyal to Dilandau than any of you.

DALLET: Except Viole.

VIOLE: SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHESTA shakes his head and begins to walk off.

GUIMEL: Viole, keep it to yourself.