Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ The Second Vision of Escaflowne ❯ The Discovery of New Zaibach ( Chapter 6 )

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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 6

"Dena wake up and get dressed." Cerena said. Dena woke up and yawned loudly. She looked outside and groaned, "It's the crack of dawn Cerena…" "I know it's early," Cerena said gently smiling at her letting her know she knew how she felt, "But Allen and Gaddas need to make sure everyone knows what they are doing to help destroy the Zaibach empire." "Wha-?" Dena asked getting dressed, "What could we possibly do?" "I don't know. That 's why they want to make a huge announcement about it. Now lets go downstairs." "Okay." Dena said following.

"All right everyone this is how it's going to work," Gaddas began, "Me, Allen, and a few of the best knights are gonna go into the fortress while the rest of the men will standby, just in case we need backup. All right lets go!" Everyone cheered and followed Gaddas, even Allen. Dena was a little confused because Gaddas didn't say anything about her or any of the other girls helping. "Allen!" Dena called out running after him.

Allen stopped, turned around and saw Dena running towards him. Allen smiled, knelt to her level and said, "What is it Dena?" "Is…. is there anything I can do? Or Merle or Cerena?" "The one thing you can do for me is to say here safe and sound." Allen said gently taking her hand, "Don't worry, I'll be back soon so…" "Are you sure Allen?" Dena asked, "Because I'm sure I could be of some help." Then Dena started thinking of ways she could help. "I could fly around the place and distract the guards or something, I could um…scream a million times and annoy everyone…um…" Allen laughed and closed his eyes at the last one Dena said. "Oh my…well…no Dena you need to save your lovely voice so you can greet me when I come back." He said rubbing his finger lightly by her throat. Dena smiled, closed her eyes, blushed a bright red, and looked away. Allen gently led her head back to his. "Just be safe Dena. Along with Cerena and Merle. Don't worry, if all goes wrong…Van will protect you…but I doubt that will happen…" Allen said laughing a little, "Just promise me you'll stay here. Okay? Do you promise?" "Okay…" Dena said, "I promise." "Good." Allen said getting up, "I'll see you in a bit!" "Bye!" Dena smiled and waved as Allen ran off.

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After many hours of waiting, Allen still hadn't returned from the fortress like he said he would. Dena paced back and forth, impatiently waiting to see Allen. Meanwhile, Merle and Cerena were keeping Van company by talking to him. "Oh Van, you're way better than Allen." They both said snuggling into him. Van laughed a little and said, "Yeah, right…" "But you are." Cerena said. "Yeah! For Real!" Merle said smiling. "Where is Allen anyway?" Dena asked out of the blue. The two girls looked at her for a moment; then Merle said, "How should I know?" "Anyway Dena, don't worry about it…" Cerena said patting her on the back, "I'm sure he's safe and sound." "Right…" Dena said. Then she began to look out into the sky. The sun was just beginning to set. "Cerena's right…" Dena began to think to herself, "Allen will be fine. After all…he did promise me…" She sighed and looked at her dress. She loved her new purple dress. It wasn't extremely long at all either; it was just short enough for people to see her black boots.


Suddenly it got extremely dark. Then a flash of light appeared in front of Dena. She was suddenly in a weird room with fire everywhere. She saw Allen. Then she saw an odd looking man with short black hair running up behind Allen. "You are mine!!!" The man screamed as he began to mercilessly murder Allen. Allen yelled in pain with every brutal hit he received, until finally, there was so much blood out of him, that he closed his eyes and fell to the floor. He was soaked in his own blood. "NO!" Dena shouted as she ran up to him. Everything then disappeared except for Allen and the pool of blood he was in. Dena ran her hands through his hair and then felt for his pulse. Nothing. Dena began to cry bitterly for about 5 minutes, which to her seemed like 5 hours. After a while she paused and then screamed, "ALLEN!"

"Dena what's wrong?" Cerena, Merle, and Van both asked running over towards her. When they got to her, they saw she had her eyes soaked with tears. "What happened?" Van asked. Dena ignored all of them as she looked at the fortress again. "Allen…" she whispered. Then she looked at all of them and said, "I have to go help Allen." She quickly spread out her wings as she prepared to leave. "Oh no you don't!" Cerena said getting in front of her, "You are not going anywhere." Then Dena looked angrily at Cerena and said, "Yes I am." Then she jumped over Cerena and flew towards the fortress of Zaibach.

"Allen! We've gotta get out of here soon!" Gaddas said concerned to Allen. "No!" Allen said, " We've got to find Prince Chid!" There was a silence between the two for a moment. All that could be heard were the shouts of the Heavenly knights and the cries of the new Zaibach forces Dalmacius had arranged. Suddenly someone shouted, "Take cover! It's gonna blow!" "Oh not the gas tank!" someone shouted. "Yes the gas tank! Run for it! Take cover!" Everyone hid behind something at that very instant. The gas tank then exploded, causing a huge fire everywhere. Most of the Zaibach solders died from the explosion and only a couple were left.


"Now look what they've done!" Jaquan shouted angrily, "They're ruining our fortress!" then he looked at Dalmacius angrily and pointed his sword towards his throat. "You will pay for your stupidity in choosing new Zaibach solders!" Suddenly someone kicked the sword right out of Jaquan's hand. "How what?" Jaquan asked looking all around him. Then he saw Cebria cuddling right night to Dalmacius. Jaquan put his hands on his hips, lifted an eyebrow and asked smartly, "What do you think you are doing?" "You are not going to blame all of this foolishness on Dalmacius!" she quickly grabbed his face and kissed him for a quick moment. Then she let him go and looked at Jaquan. "Disgusting." Jaquan said, "Love is sick…" "I will kill him now!" Yhkon suddenly shouted jumping down. "Who are you going to kill?" Jaquan asked looking on at him.


Allen looked all around him; the place was becoming quite hot. "I hope Chid's okay…" Allen said to himself wiping off some sweat off his forehead. Suddenly he heard someone shout behind him, "YOU ARE MINE!" Allen turned around and saw an evil looking man with short black hair and piercing black eyes. "NO!" someone with a lot of feathers shouted holding back the evil man. After some of the feathers had blown away, he realized it was Dena. "Dena? What you doing here?" he said in a surprised yet stern tone. "I had a vision, I had to come and save you!" Dena flew up to Allen and grabbed him. "I saw you and the evil man in the vision," she began still clinging onto Allen, "He came up behind you and cut you to pieces…then you died in your own pool of blood…" She began to cry in his shoulder. "I was scared." "You must have been scared…" he said gently rubbing his hands through her hair. "Very scared…" she added, "I thought I'd never see you again if I hadn't…"

Meanwhile Jaquan stood there, staring at this Draconian girl in the blonde haired man's arms. "She reminds me of someone…" he thought. Suddenly a flash of light blinded him as he saw images of his past flash before him. He was at a pool, then at a school, then he was kissing the Draconian girl without her wings, then he was dancing, then he was under a tree. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Jaquan screamed as he saw all of these images way too fast. Dena gasped as she and Allen looked over to see who screamed so loudly. Allen angrily looked at the boy and said, "Jaquan daLarzas." Then he took out his sword. "Who?" Dena asked. "He's the captain of the Dragon Slayers…" Allen said simply. "Dragon Slayers?" "I'll explain later…" he said as he approached him. "Ignore the boy if you know what is good for you." An evil voice said behind them both. The both quickly turned around and saw an evil looking man with a dark cloak all around him. "Folken Fanel?" Allen asked confused. "No fool! I am Wielmer, sorcerer and assistant emperor to Emperor Diamenn!" "Who is Emperor Diamenn?" Allen asked getting even more confused, "Isn't it Emperor Dornki- wait a minute we killed him a year ago…" "Alas the original emperor has fallen," Wielmer said floating in the air above them, "But a spirit of a dead Lord from Asturia's has risen and is so powerful that, he could destroy the entire universe…not only that he has wealth beyond belief…" "How is that so?" Allen asked still a little confused crossing his arms. "He is a sorceror as well," he replied, "even more powerful than I am. He can get anything he wants at any place, any time…he died because he accidentally set a death curse upon himself." "Oh…" Allen said. Suddenly Allen and Dena heard something above them by Wielmer. "NOOOO!! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU LITTLE-" it sounded like the cries of a child. "Shut up! You need to come out here with us!" Then a short 16 year old came out along with a cat girl clinging on to a moving bag. "We bagged him sir!" the short child said giving a salute. Wielmer motioned for the cat girl to open up the bag. The boy inside of the bag was plopped onto the floor, motionless! "Chid!" Allen shouted realizing it was his son. "Oh no…" Dena said putting her hand over mouth. "Calm down, he's not dead!" the short girl said, "The bag has sleeping powder in it so he'll be asleep for a good long while…" "Yep." The catgirl said, "In fact, sometimes the person who gets the sleeping powder never wakes up…" "Well he doesn't need to anyway…' Wielmer said evilly grinning. Wielmer then gathered some green magic and threw it at Chid. Chid slowly began to float up into the air with a green force field surrounding him. "What are you doing?" Allen asked getting worried.

Suddenly Dena had another vision. This time there were millions of death spirits under Chid. Chid fell into the death spirits and was devoured by them. Suddenly Dena came back and saw Chid beginning to float towards the raging fire. "He's going to put Chid in the fire!" Dena suddenly realized. She quickly jumped up flying straight towards Chid. She grabbed Chid and began to pull him out of the force field. "What?" Wielmer said shocked, "How could this child simply pull him out of my clutches?" then he squeezed his fists hard as he began to telepathically pull. "Hey!" Allen said trying to climb up to where Wielmer was. But Chantra, Dalmacius, and a few other Dragon Slayers who grabbed Allen and dragged him to the ground stopped his attempt at saving Chid. "Who do you think you are!?" One dragon Slayer girl shouted punching Allen in the face. Allen made a little moan of pain. "Yeah!" another guy Dragon Slayer shouted kicking him in the chest. "Lets get em'!" someone suddenly shouted. Allen then heard the shouts of his men charging towards the Dragon Slayers. "I'm getting out of here!" one shouted. "It's all up to you guys!" another shouted.

Meanwhile Dena was still pulling Chid out of the force field. "Why don't you just give up child?" Wielmer said to Dena. "Never!" Dena said angrily looking at Wielmer tugging even harder. "Why not?" Wielmer said pulling harder as well, "You're wasting your time…I am a sorcerer…" "So what?" Dena said tugging even harder than before, "I'm not afraid of you!" The sorcerer laughed at the sound of those words. "You, not afraid…" he laughed again, "Child, I am your worst nightmare." "Oh really?" Dena said still not afraid. Suddenly Wielmer felt a sharp pain in his arm. He screamed in pain as he fell to the ground. "Wielmer!" the cat girl shouted. She then was black out with the kick of a boot. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" the little short girl screamed running away. Dena took Chid in her arms. And patted his head, "Wake up. Hey? Can you hear me?" then Dena remembered her…

"I don't wanna leave you!" "I don't want you to leave either sister but, we have to go our own separate ways sometime in life…" "I love you sister!" "So do I!" "C'mon lil' brat lets go!" "Dad be easy on her she's only 5-" "Don't call me your father!"

"Dena what are you doing?" Van shouted, "Get out of here with Chid!" "Oh! Of course!" Dena shouted flying away.

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After many hours of grueling battle, Allen, the Heavenly knights and Van returned from Zaibach, exhausted. As they all watched the fortress fall to the ground, Milerna and Cerena helped them inside to bandage and comfort them. "Will you be okay Allen?" Milerna gently asked Allen rubbing his head with a cool cloth. "Yes," Allen said taking her hand, "As long as you're here." She leaned in and they kissed. "I keep forget that he loves her and not me," Dena thought sighing, "I need to learn that I'm just not in his league…and yet I wonder…" Dena looked at Chid. He still hadn't woken up. Why did she think of her when she saw him…
Dena suddenly was outside of a court house in the pouring rain. She saw her. It was her little sister who disapeared from her life when she was 9 years old because her mother lost custody of her in court . "I don't wanna leave you!" her little sister Crystal Mina Khan said clinging onto a younger Dena Takichina Khan. "Hey! That's when I was younger!" Dena said "I don't want you to leave either sister but," the little Dena said, " we have to go our own separate ways sometime in life…" Crystal, with tear filled eyes looked at her bigger sister. "How could you say that Dena?" "I don't know I…" "I love you sister!" Crystal said clinging onto her. "I love you too!" both young and present day Dena said crying. Suddenly, Dena could see everything from her younger self's point of view. She saw her dad, who also disappeared from her life when she was 9 years old, come up to Crystal and drag her away saying, "C'mon lil' brat lets go!" Suddenly Dena heard herself say, "Dad be easy on her she's only 5-" "Don't call me your father anymore!" her father said giving her an angry look, "You couldn't possibly be my daughter." Dena's heart began to break again when she heard those cruel words. And this time, she knew it was true. Crystal and the dad got in the car. Dena turned around and saw the step mom she never knew walk towards the car. She had long, wavy dark hair and wore a spiked, black leather jacket. She always had a cigarette in her mouth and wore these big, shinny sunglasses with red boots. She looked like a prostitute to Dena now. Before getting into the car, the stepmother flicked Dena off. "Hey! What the heck?" Dena thought ticked off. Then the car disappeared as it drove off. Dena then felt the pain of the loss of her sister come back on her hard. She got down on her knees like she had as a child and cried. She just knelt there, crying bitterly.

"Dena, what's the matter?" Cerena said apprearing in front of her in the vision. Then, still as a child , she hugged Cerena and spilled her guts. "My little sister, she's gone!" "What?" Cerena asked. "My little sister is gone!" "When, what? Huh? You have a sister?" "She's gone now I can't do anything!" Dena said crying even more into her shoulder. "Dena look at me."

Dena looked at Cerena. She realized she was back in the Crusade ship. She looked all around her. There was Van right next to Cerena along with Merle and Princess Eries. "What do you mean by 'she's gone now'?" Princess Milerna asked Dena next to her. Dena turned and looked towards Milerna. "She's been gone," Dena, said, "My little sister Crystal. She disappeared from my life when I was only 9 years old." "You had a little sister?" Allen asked who was also next to her. Dena looked towards Allen and nodded her head. "How old was your sister when she disappeared?" Allen asked. "She was only 5," Dena continued, "she would have lived with me and my mom but my dad won the case and he won custody of her and made sure that my mom or me was forbidden to ever see her again." Dena put her head in her legs and cried again. Allen tried to hold Dena close to him, but Dena gently pushed him away clinging to her legs even tighter. "Huh?" Allen thought to himself, "She usually lets me comfort her…I don't get it." "Good that girl is learning to keep her hands off someone else's property." Milerna thought looking lovingly at Allen. "Dena, are you that upset?" Allen asked gently rubbing her back. Milerna burned with anger. "What does he see in her?" Milerna thought angrily, "She's a child, I'm almost an adult! What the heck?" "Yes." Dena said still crying. Allen heart broke everytime he heard her in her sad tone. "Dena, please," Allen said trying to wrap his arms around her, "I want to comfort you…" "No!" Milerna suddenly shouted. Everyone looked at her. "Uh, I mean…no Allen. If she doesn't need your comfort…she doesn't need your comfort…" "Yes I do." Dena said looking at both Allen and Milerna. Suddenly she blurted out, "But I don't think I deserve to have any kind of love from Allen, because you two belong together. It's just the way it is. I have to accept it. You two are lovers, I can't be trying to take Allen from you Milerna it would break your heart. And Allen…" She looked at Allen, who was very confused at what she was saying. Dena then cried, "I don't even deserve you anyway!" She then got up and ran outside. "Dena!" Cerena said running after her. Milerna just smiled; satisfied that she could finally know that Allen was all hers. "I have to go talk to her…" Allen said getting up. "Wha?" Milerna said grabbing Allen, "But you heard her…" "I know I did and it isn't right." "What are you talking about?" "Just because you've only heard Dryden Fassa is dead doesn't mean he is. If you truly love him, you should just forget me and wait for him." "But Allen…" "But nothing Milerna. Listen to me, I don't really love you." Milerna gasped. Was it true? "Eries was right, I just wanted to be with you to remind myself of Marlene…I'm sorry…I just don't love you Milerna…I hope you understand…" With that, Allen ran outside, leaving a heart-broken princess behind.

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"Allen, just be gentle when talking to her okay?" Cerena said before she let him up. "Okay." Allen said. Allen climbed up the latter to the top of the Crusade. When he saw her, his heart began to break. He could hear her softly crying and almost feel her tears. Allen walked up Dena and sat down by her. Dena put her head up and realized it was Allen. Allen began to speak but Dena said, "No Allen don't say a word let me talk." Allen nodded and Dena began, "I'm sorry for over reacting in the ship. I know I shouldn't be getting into you're personal love life with Milerna and everything…" "Dena." Allen said trying to tell her something. "Allen, you do not have to apologise at all. I admit it, it's my fault I'm sorry…" "Dena." Allen said again. "No Allen don't. Don't take the blame." "Dena," Allen said taking her hands, "I'm not with Milerna anymore…" Dena was shocked. Why did he dumb her, "Why?" she simply asked. "Because her heart actually belongs to someone else and I don't want you to think that just because I'm with her, you can't get comfort from me." Allen looked sweetly into her eyes. Dena's heart began to mealt like crazy. Suddenly her heart and mind had a huge debate. "Just show him how you feel now…" "NO! It's too soon. Wait a little longer." "Love conquers all my child, do it!" "Don't listen to it! Don't! Oh God!" Dena moved into Allen a little bit closer. Allen moved in a little too. Suddenly Allen had many thoughts rush through his head. "Yes, this is the right thing to do…" "What the heck are you doing? You know she's way too young for you…don't do the same thing you did to Hitomi…oh yeah that was because…just get away from her..NOW!" "Don't be mean about it though…do something gently…" Allen's heart began to pound. Should he kiss her? He only knew her a little bit and knew that if he moved things too fast, he would scare her away or he would get scared away. So instead of kissing her lips, he moved his lips a little higher and kissed her forehead. Dena and Allen drew back from each other. "He kissed my forehead…" Dena thought, "I wanted him to kiss kiss me…" Suddenly she understood. "What am I thinking? I'm going a little bit forward on Allen…not only that I'm just a child to him…a little princess he wants to protect…" she looked at Allen and gently smiled. Then she moved up to him and gave him a hug. "Thank you for making me feel better Allen." Dena said as she squeezed him gently. Allen smiled and squeezed her back.

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..)