Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ The Happy Sequel To Escaflowne ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

SCENE 5: Int. Castle. Lunchtime. Everyone sitting around table, eating.

HITOMI V.O: So I've been back in Gaea a few weeks now. It's different now with the war being over and all. Celena is maturing more quickly these days, now she's at the maturity of a nine-year-old. Normally things seem pretty peaceful...except once when Celena asked Van to play a board game and he got scared. Well...she did say "let's play,"...I guess that triggered some traumatic memories for him. But today something else happened to...eh...disturb the peace.

CELENA: Listen everyone! After reading all that poetry in the book Allen gave me, I decided to write a poem of my own!

ALLEN: You did? What's it about?

CELENA: It's about....Hitomi!

HITOMI: Me?

CELENA: Yeah! Wanna hear it?

VAN: Let's hear it.

CELENA: Okay, everyone...here is my poem!

HITOMI

Hitomi is a girl who used to live on the Mystic Moon

But now lives on Gaea

Because she likes it better here I think

anyway she's nice

and fun to be with

she came here by falling out of a Guymelef

I dunno why

but she did

anyway I'm glad she did because she's nice

The end

What do you think?

ALLEN: Well, it's a start.

HITOMI: Thank you, Celena.

CELENA: Do you like it?

VAN: Very...interesting.

JAJUKA: It's very nice, Celena.

EVERYONE notices JAJUKA sitting near CELENA

ALLEN: Hey, I thought you were dead!

JAJUKA: Does my fur look THAT bad?

EVERYONE laughs

JAJUKA: Anyway I'm here to watch out for Celena.

ALLEN: Well I can look after her just fine.

JAJUKA: You didn't twelve years ago.

ALLEN: Hey!

ALLEN runs over to JAJUKA and starts fighting with him.

EVERYONE: 0.0

CELENA: No, don't! Don't fight, you guys.

ALLEN and JAJUKA stop fighting

ALLEN: Sorry, Celena.

JAJUKA: You can't take a joke very well, can you?

ALLEN: Not about that.

CELENA has become very quiet, listening.

HITOMI: What's wrong, Celena?

CELENA: Nothing, just listening.

ALLEN: Don't talk about this around her.

CELENA: Darn it.

just then, FOLKEN'S GHOST appears in a previously empty chair. (as all the ghosts are ghosts they will be hereafter referred to by their names past their intros, kay? I don't wanna type so much!)

FOLKEN: Hi Van, miss me?

EVERYONE: 0.0

ALLEN: Now I know that HE IS dead!

MERLE: Another bulletin from the department of the obvious has arrived! Allen, he's see-through. Of course he's dead.

JAJUKA: Well at least now Allen knows how to tell the difference between an alive person and a dead person.

FOLKEN: Hi! I'm here, remember?

MERLE: Oh, yeah, huh. Forgot.

FOLKEN: So once a person is dead, he's forgotten?

VAN: hi Folken. I didn't forget you.

FOLKEN: Thankfully someone didn't.

CELENA: Who are you?

FOLKEN: I was about to ask you the same thing.

JAJUKA: Oh my.....

HITOMI: What? Oh...

VAN: Oh please! Don't remind me!

FOLKEN: Oh wait, you do look familiar....

CELENA: I'm Allen's sister.

FOLKEN: Oh you're the girl....Dilandau...

VAN: (head in arms) DON'T SAY THAT!

ALLEN: We don't talk about...the war...around her.

FOLKEN: Oh. Sorry.

CELENA: Who's that guy, why is he dead, and why is he sitting at our lunch table?

FOLKEN: I am sitting at your lunch table because it is not dinner yet.

HITOMI: He's...um...Van's brother. His name is Folken. And he died...in the war.

CELENA: How?

HITOMI: It's too violent. You don't want to know.

CELENA: Oh, (sadly,) okay then.

CELENA V.O: I guess it is too violent for me to hear about the war, or what part I played in it. I know that, even though I'm growing up, I'm still...young..in mind. But I want to know! It's my past! My story! Oh well, Allen has his reasons for not wanting me to know and he is always right.

VAN: So, Folken, what have you been doing for the last two years?

FOLKEN: Wandering.

the ghosts of ERIYA and NARIA appear and run over to FOLKEN

ERIYA and NARIA; (clinging to Folken.) We've missed you!

HITOMI: Does it bother you when they cling to you like that?

FOLKEN: Not usually...but there was one time that they did it when I was standing and they accidentally pulled my pants down. I had to death-threat those who were watching to make them shut up.

CELENA: Couldn't you have been nicer about it?

FOLKEN: She's his opposite?

JAJUKA: Yes

CELENA: Who am I the opposite of?

JAJUKA: Nevermind, Celena

VAN: Folken?

FOLKEN: Yes?

VAN: Did they do it on purpose or what?

FOLKEN: What do you mean?

VAN: Eriya and Naria....

FOLKEN: Van!

HITOMI: Eh...Van...I don't think that was very...appropriate....

CELENA: Why would they do it on purpose?

ALLEN; To be...strange.

CELENA: Sure sounds it. I don't see why anyone would want to pull some guy's pants down, Van.

ALLEN: Let's keep it that way.

VAN: Uh..sorry Allen

ALLEN: Would you mind keeping a CLEAN mouth around Celena?

VAN: Sorry....

CELENA V.O: There goes Allen trying to shelter me again.

NARIA: Ooh! (noticing MERLE) it's the kitten!

ERIYA: Hello, kitten.

MERLE: Uh...hi...

FOLKEN: Do you mind if we make our home here?

ALLEN: Don't you have to be in the AFTERLIFE or something?

FOLKEN: It's really boring there.

VAN: I don't mind if you stay.

CELENA: Yay! More people living here!

JAJUKA: Almost like a Zaibach reunion. All we need are the Dra....

VAN: Shut up!

CELENA: what's Zaibach?

FOLKEN: You ought to tell her at least a little, Allen. As it stands her ignorance is laughable.

ALLEN: In time.

CELENA V.O: Saying I sound stupid? Thanks a LOT. But Allen must be right.

SORA appears.

SORA: This is the Escaflowne movie, right?

MERLE: The series parody movie.....

SORA: Oh, darn. I came to the wrong thing. I hope Lord Folken will be okay without me.

ERIYA: How do YOU know Lord Folken?

ALLEN: Who are you?

SORA: I'm his fortune-teller...

FOLKEN: Uh...I don't believe I know you.....

SORA: Who are you

FOLKEN: I'm Folken

SORA: Oh yeah, that's right...the movie people are different than the people in the series.

VAN: Wait...how many Folkens are there?!

HITOMI: I'm confused.

CELENA: What's the movie?

SORA: You're not in the movie. Dilandau isn't a he/she in the movie.

ALLEN: Omae o korusu.....

SORA: I believe I could do that before you could. I have magic, you know.

CELENA: No! Allen, don't fight!

CELENA V.0: What's a he/she? Who is this Dilandau? And what's my connection to this person, anyway? And why does Dilandau not being a he/she...whatever that is..exclude me from the movie? I WANT TO KNOW!

ALLEN: Okay I won't kill you. Let's JUST HOLD A MORITORIUM ON DISCUSSING HIM AROUND MY SISTER!

VAN: can we hold a moratorium on discussing him ever?

FOLKEN: based on our experiences, I don't believe that's possible, Van.

VAN: Based on my experiences, I think it's impossible to LIVE if we talk about it!

FOLKEN: It's okay, Van. Being a ghost--it's not the same as being alive by any means, but it's not that bad.

SORA: (to Folken) even though you're not the Lord Folken I know, you're still very handsome.

FOLKEN: Uh...thanks.

NARIA: Hey Sora, hands off our Folken!

HITOMI: does anyone realize how WEIRD that just sounded?

MERLE: Another bulletin from the department of the obvious, Hitomi.

SORA: If I can't have my own Folken, he'll have to do. Shoo, kitties.

ERIYA: What did you say? (dangerously.)

NARIA: This is OUR Lord Folken! You can't have him!

EVERYONE BUT ERIYA, NARIA, AND SORA: 0.0

FOLKEN: 0.0

VAN: Haven't you always wanted to be fought over by so many lovely girls?

HITOMI smacks VAN over the head

VAN: Hey!

HITOMI: Do you know how immature that is?

CELENA: Van, you're acting like a child.

EVERYONE: Oooh!

VAN: That HAD to come from Celena.

CELENA: Well, you are.

ERIYA: (to NARIA, looking at SORA) shall we fight her, sister?

NARIA: Yes.

SORA: You think you can take me? You know, I have the power to hurt ghosts.

NARIA: (sarcastic) Oh I'm so scared.

CELENA: No, please don't fight! can't you share him or something?

EVERYONE: Celena?

CELENA: Folken can have lots of friends, right?

ALLEN sighs a sigh of relief

SORA: (to ERIYA and NARIA) I'll MAKE you afraid of me.

suddenly, ERIYA starts to scream. SORA is glowing.

EVERYONE BUT ERIYA AND SORA: 0.0

CELENA: No! Don't fight! (jumps from her chair and runs over to them.) Please, please stop!

SORA: Get out of the way.

CELENA: No...don't fight! Don't, please!

NARIA raises her claws to SORA

NARIA: Stop hurting my sister.

FOLKEN: Stop it, you.

CELENA runs out of the room. ALLEN and JAJUKA follow her. Pretty soon everyone runs out after CELENA except ERIYA, NARIA, FOLKEN, and SORA.

FOLKEN: Don't fight, girls! Not on, ow! me! Get off!

SORA has four cuts on the side of her face from NARIA'S claws.

SCENE 6: int. same room as before.

SORA is sitting in a chair with her head on the table. She appears to be passed out She is bleeding because she appears to have been clawed by ERIYA and NARIA an awful lot. But apparently she was able to hit them hard enough to make them leave. FOLKEN has left with them.

EYECATCH!!!!!! Okay just had to put it in. We love the Escaflowne Eyecatch. You all know what we mean, don'cha?

SCENE 7: Int. castle kitchen. A random servant is cooking something over an open fire.

HITOMI V.O: a few days later, I learned how opposite Celena and Dilandau really are.....

VAN and HITOMI are talking by the fire. CELENA enters, carrying a notebook. She sits there and writes for a few minutes, then stands up.

CELENA: excuse me, I'm sorry, but the fire is making me feel sick.

VAN: Okay then I don't mind if you leave.

ALLEN enters

ALLEN: Fire makes you feel sick, Celena?

CELENA: Yes, I think I'm allergic to it, why?

ALLEN: Just wondering

RANDOM SERVANT: Because Dilandau loved fire and I'm wondering how totally opposite you two are.

CELENA: Oh okay......

ALLEN: RANDOM SERVANT!!!! Do you want me to fire you???

RANDOM SERVANT: Sorry sir....

ALLEN V.O: It's a good question, though

FOLKEN'S GHOST APPEARS

FOLKEN: They are totally opposite.

VAN: You mean her allergy to fire is what made Dilandau so obsessed with fire?

FOLKEN: Yes. Oh dear, that's why Dilandau was so destructive. It would have been so much better if she had hated garlic or something.... (sigh) I can't really think of many destructive powers of garlic

HITOMI: 0.0

ALLEN: I thought we held a moratorium on this discussion....

CELENA: But I love garlic

JAJUKA enters

FOLKEN: Did Dilandau have any particular emotions towards garlic....?

JAJUKA: Oh, Dilandau hated garlic! Garlic would make him turn back into Celena at times. Oops....

CELENA V.O.: Wait...I turn into Dilandau? Or Dilandau turns into me?

ALLEN: JAJUKA.....!

CELENA V.O: Uh oh, seems like another fight is about to start. I'd better change the subject. When will someone tell me who Dilandau is?

CELENA: Well I love garlic. Eh....I also love butterflies. I'm going to write a poem about garlic and butterflies!

EVERYONE ELSE: 0.0

CELENA scribbles in her book for a moment.

CELENA: Listen! Okay....

BUTTERFLIES AND GARLIC

some food would be plain without garlic

it would be boring and after a while people would not want to eat it

but garlic makes it interesting

garlic is a spice

so too, life would be boring without butterflies

butterflies appear out of the sky

every once in a while

to give life some spice

butterflies beautify life as garlic beautifies food

JAJUKA: You wrote a poem about garlic and butterflies and it's actually good!

HITOMI: Yeah I like it a lot.

CELENA: Thanks you guys

FOLKEN: (sighs) couldn't Zaibach have found some kid who was allergic to marshmallows or something?!

ALLEN: (pleading) please! All I'm trying to do is protect her!

CELENA V.O: From what? Ah well...time to change the subject again.

CELENA: I love marshmallows!!!!!

VAN: What did Dilandau think of marshmallows, Jajuka?

JAJUKA: He liked them...er...well...he liked them when they were burnt to a crisp

VAN: not surprising (darkly)

CELENA: (in tears) burn a marshmallow? Why would anyone want to do a thing like that? It would get all black and hard and the inside would be all gooey! Why when someone could eat a perfectly white one.....

CELENA RUNS OVER TO HITOMI AND STARTS CRYING ON HITOMI'S SHIRT

HITOMI: 0.0 Eh, Celena? are you okay?

ALLEN: Let's go upstairs and talk about it later.... (glares at VAN, FOLKEN, and JAJUKA) (sarcastic,) thanks, you.

EVERYONE EXITS EXCEPT FOLKEN

FOLKEN: (sigh) couldn't Zaibach have found some kid who was afraid of marshmallows?

SCENE 8:Ext. Urban street somewhere in Hitomi's city in Japan. VAN and HITOMI are in..well...she's in the school uniform she always wears and VAN is in a boy's version of the uniform.

HITOMI V.O: So...it's been a month or so since that whole incident with the conversation that..if it didn't make Celena flip out, it certainly made Allen flip out. Celena was fine after Jajuka brought her a plate of garlic pasta and a bag of marshmallows--how he got that on Gaea I don't know. Allen, though was flipping out so badly--for almost a week he was giving death threats to everyone who'd been in the discussion...Jajuka, Van, even Folken! Sorta defeats the purpose, Death-threating Folken. Anyway, now Celena is at the maturity level of an eleven-year-old and has developed a taste for cute jewelry. So I decided to go to the Mystic Moon...wait...Earth. Jeez I've been living on Gaea too long! Er..actually, I haven't. Well, today's adventure, my last trip ever to Earth, taught me why I now belong in Gaea.

VAN: Is this what the boys at your school wore?

HITOMI: Hai.

VAN: It's ugly.

HITOMI: I know.

VAN: I like Gaea better.

HITOMI: Me too. But there's this cute store...I bought so much stuff there when I was twelve, and I thought I'd get Celena something.

VAN: Why did you make me come?

HITOMI: I thought you'd like to be with me, Van.

VAN: Well, yeah...but do we have to be here?

HITOMI: Plus I thought we ought to get out of the castle---see the sights....

VAN: You've never thought we should do that before....

HITOMI; Okay, you want to know my real reason? To get you and Allen out of each other's faces for a few hours!

VAN: But did we HAVE to go to the MYSTIC MOON to do that? It's not like Allen's going to follow us to bug us.

HITOMI: Okay! Sorry!

VAN: No, really, I don't mind.

HITOMI sighs, exasperated.

VAN: What's wrong, Hitomi?

HITOMI: You've been complaining for the last half hour about this and now when I apologize you say that you don't mind!!!!

VAN: Oh yeah...sorry.

HITOMI: I don't mind.

VAN: HITOMI!!!!

HITOMI: Yes?

VAN: Nevermind.

VAN and HITOMI enter into a Claire's Accessories, except that in Japan it probably has some other name--anyway they walk in, but just when they get inside, HITOMI notices YUKARI, who is working as a cashier.

YUKARI: (a look of astonishment on her face.) Hitomi? Hitomi Kanzaki?

HITOMI blushes

HITOMI: Eh....um...la sala de clase es muy aburrida! Es verdad!

VAN: 0.0

YUKARI: Aren't you Hitomi??

HITOMI: Todos vamos a morir! Ehh...eh...hola, que pasa? El apartamento es muy bonito!

YUKARI: (to Van.) Wait...isn't she Hitomi?

VAN: Yeah....who are you?

YUKARI: What the heck are you doing, Hitomi?

HITOMI: (embarrassed,) practicing my Spanish?

YUKARI: Since when do you know Spanish? Why were you trying to hide from me, Hitomi?

HITOMI: Ehh...I didn't expect to see you, Yukari?

YUKARI: Hitomi! Where the *heck* have you been? You've been missing for months, now you return with this guy and ignore me!

HITOMI: I'm really sorry Yukari. The thing is--I'm not back for good. We're just buying gifts for--a friend.

YUKARI: Where are you living now?

VAN: On Gaea with me.

YUKARI: Gaea?

VAN: It's....it's...Hitomi?

HITOMI: It's another planet.

YUKRI: Check yourself into a mental hospital, Hitomi......

HITOMI: No...it does make sense.

YUKARI: Right..well...who's this ugly guy anyway?

VAN: Hey!

HITOMI: This is Van Fanel. He's my..my....

VAN: Fiancé?

HITOMI: Ah...really?

HITOMI embraces VAN

VAN: Yeah...that's what I thought...

HITOMI: Ahhh! You're so wonderful!

YUKARI: 0.0 Does this mean I can have Amano?

HITOMI: Amano???? Oh yeah, him. Sure....you were the one who liked him anyway.

VAN: Who's Amano?

HITOMI: This guy who I had a crush on three years ago.

VAN: Oh.

YUKARI: You're getting married?!

HITOMI: People marry---younger--in Gaea.

YUKARI: I'd say!

HITOMI: Anyway--I'm not coming back, so....oh thank you Van, let's buy that, can you pay for it? Oh yes...this is Japanese money. Yeah I know it's paper.....it's still money.

VAN goes to pay for the necklace

VAN: (under his breath) You know--we could get this for her in Gaea--and the stones could be real.

HITOMI: (sigh.) (to Yukari) well...anyway, goodbye Yukari. I wish you all the best.

YUKARI: But, HITOMI!!!!!!!

VAN returns with bag in hand. He and HITOMI hug and a pillar of light comes down and takes them back to Gaea.