Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ The Second Vision of Escaflowne ❯ The Princess With Blonde Hair ( Chapter 3 )

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**NOTE TO READERS: I DO NOT OWN THE ANIME SERIES VISION OF ESCAFLOWNE or ANY OF THE OFFICIAL CHARACTERS. *******
The Second Vision of Escaflowne
By: Asturia's Angel

(The Vision of Escaflowne is owned by Bandai copyright 1996
I do not own the show or the official characters…only my original characters belong to me..)

Chapter 3

"Good morning." Cerena said as she opened the windows to let in the morning sunlight. "Wha?" Dena asked yawning a big yawn, "It's morning already? It seemed like I just got to sleep an hour ago." "Well then, maybe you shouldn't be sneaking out of windows late at night then, should you?" Cerena said folding her sheets. She looked at Dena, and then went to get dressed. Dena sighed and fell back into her bed. Cerena had sure caught her red handed.



Merle was just beginning to wake up when Cerena came in out of nowhere. Merle hissed at her, knowing she was probably trying to hit on Van. Cerena gave her a look and hissed back. "Freak." Merle mumbled scrambling off. Cerena opened the windows to let in the sunshine on Van's pretty face. She loved his face, so tender and warm. She hated to disturb such beauty but she knew she had to wake him up. "Good morning Van Fanel," Cerena said gently, "The night is over, you need to get up now." "I'd rather die than get out into the world, which increases my misery!" Van suddenly said putting a pillow over his head. Cerena looked at him for a moment. Then she began to crack up. "Oh my God! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard!" "It's not supposed to be funny…" Van murmured looking down at the floor. "I know Van I was just kidding," Cerena said. She walked over to him and sat down on his bed. She took the pillow off of his head and she brushed her hands through his hair for a moment. Then she looked down at the floor and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that…" "Oh whatever, I don't care." Van said staring at the sky. Van paused for a long moment after that. He began to look at the mystic moon. It was so mysterious, so big, and so beautiful. He wished he could go there, just to see her face once more. While staring at the moon he began to hear her voice: "Van, I'm fine." "Hitomi…" he whispered closing his eyes. Then tears started to flow down his face. Cerena quickly grabbed a handkerchief that was nearby and handed it to Van. "I know Van, I know you miss her…" she said sympathetically to Van. Then she quietly got up and went to the next room.


"Allen?" she said walking into Allen's room. She stopped for a moment realizing he was already awake, pacing around the room in his casual white shirt and black pants. "Oh. Good morning Allen…" Cerena said surprised. "Good morning." he said smiling to Cerena, " You look sweet today my sister." "Oh stop it Allen! I wear this old dress almost everyday!" Cerena giggled. "I know but you look quite lovely with it still." He said twirling her around. He then looked at her for a minute. Allen only had a little memory of what his little sister looked like in the past, but everytime he saw her, the memory became even more vivid than the day before. He then walked up to Cerena and gently hugged her. "I love you sister." He sweetly said. "I love you too brother." Cerena said patting him on the back. After he hugged her, Cerena looked at him for a moment and said, "Are you really going to go dressed like that? You're not even wearing your proper clothing! What will people say?" "Oh it doesn't matter!" Allen said grinning at Cerena, "I could go into Fried even if I came with no clothes on!" Cerena cracked up at the thought of that. Allen naked? Hmmmm…. "Seriously though," Allen continued, "Princess Milerna probably wouldn't mind seeing me out of uniform anyway…" "Yeah," Cerena said," and she definitely would mind you showing of your..*ahem*..prized possessions." Allen and Cerena went ballistic for a long time. Allen then grabbed Cerena and playful squeezed her tightly around her neck. "Shut up!" Allen said still laughing. "Oh all right, you've won this time…" Cerena said leaving his room.


Cerena finally went down to the last room, the room where all of Allen's men slept including Gaddas. She quickly went over to the large bell in the dark room and rang it extremely hard while shouting, "All right ya bunch of stupid stinky men get the hell up!" All of Allen's men moaned and groaned while getting up and some of them threw stuff at each other waking themselves up. "Hey it's the great Princess Bitch again!" one of the men shouted throwing a bucket at her face. Cerena quickly caught it and threw it back into the mob of people. Gaddas then woke up from the slam of the bucket on the floor. After a second he shouted, "Okay you guys you know what to do! Allen told you guys last night…" "Aww who gives a damn!?" one of the stout ones belted out. "Yeah I know!" another shouted. "But we should do what Allen says right?" a younger one shouted. "he aint even here now!" another one shouted. "I don't give a God damn about what any of you think!" Gaddas said throwing down a beer bottle startling a few people, "You better do what Allen says, or trust me. He'll make sure you wished you were never born!" "Ooo I'm scared!" one of the young ones shouted. "You better be though." One said, "He's a pretty tough guy! He'll whoop you're fuckin ass if you don't watch out…" "Hey is all this stuff we gotta do because we teased that new girl a little?" a dumb one shouted "Naw ya think?!" Cerena shouted to the guy, "You guys better get up and get crackin' or I will get Allen!"

Suddenly Dena came downstairs out of nowhere in her jeans, green shirt, same outfit she wore the other day. All the men recognized her and one of them said, "Hey look! It's mole man's girl!" All the men began to crack up. "I am not the Mole man's girl!" Dena shouted getting very ticked off. "Oh really?" one of them said in a funny way. "Really." Dena said looking right at the man who said that. The men oooed at the girl's sudden attitude and they all turned towards the man who was quite young. He had big ears and short, spiked brown hair and these queer looking eyes. He looked right back at Dena and said, "Little lady, may I ask what your name is?" "My name is Dena." Dena said still looking angrily at the man. "Dena, I think you should be quiet now…go somewhere else." Cerena cautiously whispered to Dena, "This guy looks ticked.." "Really? What an interesting name…" the man said walking a little closer to Dena. Now he was only a few feet away from her. "Too bad it won't be said much longer…" he evilly laughed looking straight towards Dena. "Go to hell bitch." He said pulling out a knife and throwing it towards Dena. Cerena screamed, Gaddas gasped in shock, the men gasped in bewilderment, and Dena didn't say a thing.

She saw the knife coming right at her, slowly. Soon everything became slow motion to her. The knife got closer and closer, with it's sharp point targeted for Dena's heart. She knew she couldn't avoid the knife. It was coming too quickly. She knew this was the end. Until someone held up a metal object, shielding her from the attack. She sighed in relief and looked to see who saved her. It was Allen. The gallant swordsman had saved her again. Allen looked around angrily for a moment at all of the men in the room. Then he picked up the knife from the floor. "Who threw this at her?" he yelled to the men. There was a silence for a moment. No one said a word. "Well?" he began again after a while, "Tell me! Who threw this knife at Dena Takichina Khan?!" Everyone pointed to the man who threw the knife. He was backed up against a wall, hoping no one would see him. But his plans had backfired. Allen, enraged, began to march straight up towards the man. Meanwhile Cerena and Dena went back upstairs to get the heck out of there.

Allen walked right up to the man, who was then paralyzed with fear, and looked at him angrily in the eyes. "What is your name?" He asked. "Fredrico." The young man replied horrified. Allen took the knife and stabbed it into the wall next to Fredrico. "That is what is going to happen to you next time you try to hurt anyone, especially women." Allen said angrily. Fredrico gasped in fear, then rolled his head around and fainted. Allen looked around at the other men. "Any one else want to try me today?" he said in an annoyed way. Everyone said no and shook their heads. "Okay then, now get to work." Allen said. All the men whined in annoyance and went to get ready to do all the dirty work Allen had prepared for them to do.

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"Dena why the heck would you go down there and insult one of the men like that?" Cerena asked angrily. "I heard so much noise downstairs that I wanted to see what was going on," Dena explained, "I only 'Insulted' one of the men because he called me the Mole man's girl! I didn't even really do anything to make anyone mad! I was just standing up for myself!" "Hey what's going on?" Merle asked popping out of nowhere. "I almost got killed!" Dena said to Merle. "Whoa! That's scary! Did Van save you?!" "No…Allen did." Dena said. Cerena and Merle looked at each other for a moment. Then they nodded at each other and said together in harmonic tone, "Somebody seems to like you!" "No he doesn't!" Dena said blushing a bright red, "he's just protecting me…he says it's his duty as a knight…" "Oh that's just an excuse he makes up I'm sure!" Cerena said, "I can tell he likes you..and you like him!" "Whaaa??" Dena asked turning an even brighter red. "I do not!" "Then how come you paid Allen a visit last night..*ahem*..alone in the moonlight…" Cerena remarked. Merle was rolling all over the floor going hysterical. "Oooooo! I bet you kissed him!!" Merle shouted laughing. "NO I DID NOT!!" Dena shouted turning a crimson color. "Wow you sure are blushing!" Merle said pointing to Dena, "If you really didn't kiss him…" "All right, all right Merle," Cerena said dragging her away, "Lets leave her be…lets leave her be." "Thank you." Dena mumbled very annoyed and embarrassed.


The men had to do a lot of work for Allen. They had to clean the Crusade ship, do all of the laundry and dishes, and of course swear to the gods that they would never be mean to Dena again or mention the Mole man's name to her face. Gaddas was left in charge of everyone. "So, you guys enjoying this?" Gaddas asked teasing them. "Yeah this is real fun!" one of the men said sarcastically. "Yeah I know!" another shouted, "and this all cuz' of that lil' lady and her stupid sensitivity!" "Well gee, how would you feel if you were told you could only get…oh I don't know… an old hag to go for you." Gaddas asked. "I'd kick their ass and tell them to go fuck a deer!" one of them shouted. Everyone laughed. "Oh brother, bunch of losers…" Gaddas murmured to himself. "Yep that's what I would do too!" one of the young men shouted. "Yeah right you're just saying that!" another shouted, "You're probably too much of a sissy…" "Oh shut up!" the young man shouted. "Hey hey hey!" Gaddas shouted to the men, "Don't make me get Allen up here!" everyone was quiet and continued their work.


After Dena had taken a nap in her clothes and many hours had passed, the ship was beginning to head towards a bigger ship. "IT'S THE TRADE SHIP! TIME TO GET OFF!!" someone shouted from above. "C'mon Dena," Cerena said coming in taking Dena by the hand, "we need to get onto the next ship!" "Oh…okay…" Dena said still half asleep.

The Crusade ship was docked into the trade ship and everyone got off. Dena followed close behind Cerena while Merle was following behind Van and Gaddas was leading Allen and his men into the dock. Suddenly a dashingly beautiful blonde haired girl came out of nowhere. "Oh Allen! Welcome back!!" she shouted running towards Allen. "Princess Milerna!" Allen said happily running towards her. They embraced with a hug. "Oh Allen, where have you been lately? Oh I have missed you so…" "Oh, princess…so have I…" Allen said smiling into the pretty girl's eyes. Then there was a brief pause for a moment. "Oh Milerna I forgot, I've met someone recently…" Allen said looking towards Dena. Dena immediately got up and bowed to the princess. Allen laughed a little and said, "This is Dena, she's so cute isn't she?" "Cute?" Dena thought to herself, "He thinks I'm cute??" "Oh yes very," Milerna said, "Anyway, this afternoon my father would like to speak with you in the stadium." "Why in the stadium though?" Allen asked curiously. "Oh I don't know…" Milerna said. Then she gently held Allen and kissed him for a brief moment.

Dena gasped in shock. It felt like her whole world had just been smashed to the ground. She didn't want it to show though; she did not want that bitch to know she was jealous of them. She just looked at the ground for a moment and bit her lip; a short moment later she ran off upset. "Dena!" Cerena called following her. "Milerna why did you do that?" Allen said. Then he began to run after her, until she took his wrist and said, "Allen, stay with me." Her eyes shone in the sun as she said those 3 words: "Stay with me." Allen knew he had probably crushed Dena's heart and made her feel like a fool, and possibly broke his trust with her. It wasn't like he didn't like her. He did like her, but not in a deep way like he loved Milerna. He decided to stay.


"Why? Why? Why?" Dena said crying into her knees as she sat on one of the Trade ship's ledges. "Why does she get him? How come huh?" "I know, I know." Cerena said understandingly, "He is quite a playboy…" "Yet he has such class and is such a gentlemen," Dena said looking at Cerena. She looked into the sky. She could see her home the Mystic Moon. She began to remember the night before, how gentle and kind he was. After a while she said looking at the ground. "No, he isn't just a gentlemen, he's a gentle man."

The Second Vision of Escaflowne

(The Vision of Escaflowne is owned by Bandai copyright 1996
I do not own the show or the official characters…only my original characters belong to me..)