Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Two souls ... two destinies ❯ A friend or a lover? ( Chapter 9 )

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Disclaimer: Escaflowne is Sunrise's propriety (I think!). Van, Hitomi
and all the original chapters, original story and blá, blá, blá, are
also Sunrise propriety.

But, Marta, Christina, Farge, Drid, Kokato, Zardus, Yukí, Sorú, Sano,
Ureshiú, Sotskí, Mika and all the characters you don't see on the
mangas or shows are mine. The story is also mine, cause I was the one
to imagine it and to write it. (This is so stupid! Why do I have to
write a Disclaimer every time I do a new chapter?)

Anyway, I hope you have a good time reading my fan fiction.

The vision of Escaflowne: Two souls ... two destinies

Chapter 9: A friend or a lover?

Look, this fic has some inappropriate situation. It's only a kiss
scene, well ... maybe it goes a little further, but its' only some
kisses. I also talk about something else, but I don't describe it! So
calm down! I'm not a porno or lemon (as you call it) writer!

#Previously, Marta went to sleep, embracing Van. After a while he went
to sleep too, in her room.#

Hitomi was heading for her private quarters, when she listened to
other voices, close to Marta's room. She went there, and found Celena,
Merle, Christina and Sano spying at Marta's door.

"Can I ask what's going on?" - they all put one finger on their lips
and told her to be quiet. She was now completely puzzled.

"Look!" - Christina pulled Hitomi, so she could see Van and Marta
sleeping together.

Marta was grabbing Van's waist and he had his arms around her. They
were sleeping like angels, not a single noise could be heard.

Merle and Celena laugh a little. - "Nice couple, aren't they?" -
Christina asked. Hitomi smiled cause she knew Van had soft Marta's
pain.

"Come on girls! Let them sleep and we'd better get dinner!" - Sano
demanded, they nodded and headed to the dinning-room.

Allen was on his private quarters, thinking and trying to get some
sleep. He had no intention of facing the others for a while.
Especially Van, Marta and Hitomi.

~*~*~

After two hours:

Van woke up, Marta was still asleep. Van sighed in relief; happily he
had calmed her down. He gently cherished her hair; she was so calm it
almost scared him.

He leaned over to kiss her, he wanted to do it since she first
arrived, ... but then he noticed ... she just considered him as a
friend, and surely she wouldn't like if he kissed her. He released a
heavy sigh, as usual he had no lucky with women.

The first (Hitomi) doesn't love him anymore. His fiancée (Farge) was
pregnant of another. And Marta, from whom he had a crush, wanted him
just as a friend. «Lucky guy!» - he thought to himself.

Marta moaned a little and hugged him closer, rubbing her face on his
chest. He smiled and whispered at her, knowing that she was already
awake.

"Marta! It's late! Let's eat something, and I'm sure you don't anyone
to see me sleeping with you!"

"I don't care! You're the best bed I've ever had, so just stay here
and if you're hungry ... eat ... I don't know, eat something!" - he
laughed a little.

"Come on! I know you are hungry too!" - he got up, picked her up, and
carried her to the dinning-room.

She was half-a-sleep, and half-awake. He sat her on the chair that was
on the left side of the table. - "Here we are! Want me to get the food
into your mouth, lady?" - she opened her eyes, completely sleepy and
almost got to sleep on the table. Van caught her and laughed. - "Come
on! Do it for me!" - she smiled and stood upright in the chair.

"Ok! You deserve it! But I'm not happy cause you awake me just to have
dinner ... although I'm very hungry!" - he smiled and asked Mika to
bring them something to eat.

Mika was an old friend of Van. She had the same age as he. Her mother
died when she was born, and her father died during the Great War, so
Van asked her to stay in the Palace as his guest, but she wanted to
work on the Palace and here she is! Recently she got a crush on Mister
Allen, but that's all!

When the dinner was over, Marta was completely awake, but Van decided
to carry her to her room and stood there still she got to sleep. Then
he went to his private quarters.

~*~*~

Two weeks flew away:

Drid was taken from the private guard of the Laguen's. Van gave him a
place on his private guard and Farge decided to stay in Fanélia.

Marta and Hitomi talked to Zardus and decided to forgive him. Hitomi
and Zardus started `dating' every night.

Merle and Marta spend almost every afternoons riding a horse or
shopping. Christina and Sano started it all over. And Van was
constantly pissed off, cause his advisers wanted him to get married as
soon as possible.

Van, Hitomi, Marta and the others, decided to forget what happened
between Marta and Allen. Every evening, Marta massaged Van and Allen.
Yukí and Ureshiú spend her days shopping on the streets of Asturia.
And Sorú ... and Celena ... well that ... is what we are going to find
out.

~*~*~

One night:

" ...

Oh, I hold some much to you,

You right there for me

...

In my dreams I'll always see your soul above the sky,

In my heart there'll always be a place for you,

With all my love

I'll keep a part of you with me,

And everywhere I am, there you'll be

..."

(I do not own it; it's Faith Hill's song! "There you'll be")

Marta was singing while taking her shower. It was dark outside. Dinner
had been served one hour ago and she wanted to sleep.

"You sing well!" - Marta got scared with Van's voice outside the
bathroom's door.

"VAN?! You bastard! What are you doing in my room?" - she got out of
the shower and put a towel around her body.

"I need to talk to someone!" - his voice was calm, very calm and Marta
could sense he was sad with something. She got out of the bathroom,
still with her towel around her.

"What's wrong Van?" - he sat on the edge of the bed, looking at his
feet. She sat next to him.

"My advisers keep chasing me! Can't I have some peace?" - he leaned
back on the bed. Marta turned, so she could see his eyes.

"Get a fiancée!" - he looked at her, annoyed.

"That was just what I needed to hear!" - he said sarcastically.

"I'm sure that some beautiful Lady wants to marry you!" - she leaned
over him, hanging the towel close to her body. - "You receive
thousands of letters for day!"

"All of them want to marry me, cause I'm the KING OF FANÉLIA! But yet
... I liked one of the letters!"

"So marry her!"

"It had no name on it! It was the only one!" - Marta started laughing.
- "What's so funny?"

"I think that was my letter!" - she stooped laughing.

"WHAT?!" - he grabbed her arms and rolled over her. Now Van was on the
top of her and she was smiling.

"Sorry Van, but Merle gave me the idea! I never thought you would like
it!"

"Is that right?" - he got the profit of the moment, and kissed her
full in the lips. At first she struggled to stop him, but soon she
gave up and enjoyed the kiss. His kiss was sweet and her body started
flaming, asking for more. She felt new sensations that she had never
experienced before. Van made her going crazy ... but she couldn't ...
she did not wanted to ruin their friendship just because of a moment
of pleasure. And yet, her body didn't want him to stop! Of all the
times she had made love with that stupid man, she never felt pleasure,
and now, with only a kiss she felt her whole body melting under Van's
weight. She couldn't and she didn't want him to stop.

He started kissing her neck, and she started breathing heavily. She
pressed Van's head closer to her and he than kissed her all the way to
her uncovered shoulders.

She knew exactly how that was going to end ... but tomorrow ...
tomorrow the two would regret it and she would lost her only friend.

"Stop! Please don't do this to me Van!" - she begged. She wanted to
continue, but she couldn't.

He heard her and immediately stopped. He got up from the bed and
turned around.

"I'm sorry Marta! That will never happen again!" - he got out from her
bedroom, and she started crying, alone.

~*~*~

Some nights later:

Hitomi was outside, spending some wonderful moments with Zardus.

Christina was spending her wonderful moments, in her bedroom, with the
company of Sano.

And Celena ... well Celena, whether you believe it or not ...was at
her private quarters, with ... Guess whom? ... None less then Mister
Sorú.

Yes, their relationship started the night after Zardus met Marta. And
they quickly got into more efficient love matters! (That's why she was
so interested on condoms!)

Unfortunately, Marta was the one to suffer. As she had too much good
hears.

The first room of the corridor was Merle's, than Christina's, than
Marta's, than Celena's, than Hitomi's and finally Farge's.

Marta was getting nuts! She could hear all that was going on Celena's
and Christina's private quarters. Her only chance was to get out. But
to where? Van was the only person who came to her mind. His private
quarters where on the other side of the corridor, right in front of
her room. But after what happened she had no intentions of sleeping
with him.

Finally she saw that she couldn't stand it and got up, in her green
nightdress, and went to Van's room.

She knocked at the door. And after some seconds, a sleepy Van came to
open the door. He looked at her who was staring at her foots.

After what happened they didn't talked much. Indeed, they avoided each
other!

"What's wrong Marta?"

"I ... want to ask you if I can sleep at your room tonight!" - Van's
eyes wined up.

"After what happened, you want to sleep on the same room as I? You
surprise me!"

"Well, I can't sleep at mine! Some people are making too much noise!"
- he smiled.

"Chris and Sano, I suppose?"

"Ugh ... yes!" - she said, not to make him understand that Celena was
also one of the reasons.

"Ok! You can stay! I'll sleep on the floor!" - he said opening the
door completely.

"You don't need to!" - he closed the door.

"What?" - he asked.

"To sleep on the floor! Your bed is large enough!" - he stared at her
in disbelief.

"You sure trust me a lot!" - he opened his wardrobe and picked some
pillows and sheets. - "But unfortunately for you ... I don't trust
myself enough!" - she looked puzzled.

"You can't handle it for one night?" - he turned to her and smiled.

"I can't handle it one minute!" - he started to stretch out the sheets
on the floor. - "You really don't know how hard is to me to have you
close, do you?" - her eyes wined up.

"What's so special about me, anyway?" - he got close to her and
started cherishing her hair and whispering at her hear.

"You're beautiful, a very nice person, and above all ... you're very,
very ... sexy!" - he kissed her neck and than turned around and laid
on the floor. She went to the bed, still amazed.

~*~*~

Next day's night:

Zardus had asked Marta to get to the garden, so Yukí could talk to her
a little. When Marta got out, she saw Yukí, waiting behind a tree that
was close to the Palace's walls. She got close, not to confident. Yukí
haven't seen her yet.

"Good night!" - Marta complimented. Yukí turned around and smiled.

"Good night!" - Marta sat down on the grass and so did Yukí. - "Thanks
for coming."

"It's nothing!" - Marta observed her. She had long brown hair and
black eyes. Her eyes looked like the cats from Earth, they were
beautiful. She looked very nice, despite the fact that Marta had seen
her almost killing Allen for nothing.

"Zardus told me your name's Marta! I'm sorry if I thought you were my
sister ... you look a lot like her!" - Yukí sighed.

"What happened to your sister?" - Marta asked.

"Well ... When I was ten and she was six, our village was burned.
Mother, to save us, sent us to different places. My sister went to the
Mystic Moon and I went to Asturia."

"Who burned your village?"

"There was an old man, a very mean man, who suffered from a disease.
He came to us thinking that our people could help him. As we couldn't
he decided to revenge and burned our village on a celebration day,
when everyone was at the main sanctuary! No one escaped but us two ...
I mean my sister and I!" - Marta smiled.

"Tell me about her and your people!" - Yukí smiled and looked at the
stars.

"Our people lived isolated cause we cannot reproduce with other races.
If we did so, the next generation would not have the power to heal ...
as we do! But we found out that we can reproduce with the Draconians!"
- Marta's eyes wined up questionably.

"What's a Draconian?"

"They are ... like angels!" - she said smiling.

"They have wings?"

"Yes! Me and my sister have too." - she got up and showed her
beautiful, white wings. Yukí's blue shirt had now two hols, at least
she didn't destroyed it completely. Marta was completely amazed and
very happy for finally get to see an angel.

"Beautiful!" - Marta exclaimed. Yukí's wing returned to her back and
she sat again, smiling.

"If you were my sister, you would also have them!"

"So I suppose one of your parents was a Dra-Draconian!"

"Yes! My father was!" - Marta smiled.

"Please continue!"

"Oh ... right! Well, mother and father met each other, and as father
was one of the last Draconians, he decided to stay at the village.
Soon he and mom got married and I was born. After four years my sister
was born. She was beautiful and made friends very quickly! The eldest
said that she was going to become the greatest Healy that has ever
lived! I don't see her since the day that our people was completely
destroyed." - Yukí started crying and Marta hugged her, trying to
comfort her.

"I'm very sorry!" - she said. Marta saw Zardus approaching. Yukí got
up and said goodbye to Marta, leaving.

Zardus got closer and helped Marta up. She thanked but gave him a
angered look.

"What?" - he asked after a while.

"I hope ... you don't hurt Hitomi's feelings." - she asked him.

"You think I don't like her, don't you?" - he smiled.

"Yes!" - she sighed. - "And if you don't, you'd better finish this now
... before it's too late!"

He turned his back on her. - "You're wrong ... very wrong! I love
Hitomi and I'll prove it to you!" - she gave a scoffing smile.

"And how do you intend to do it?"

"You'll see!" - he was gone in less than nothing. - "Backa! I'll kill
you if you hurt her! Although I'm pretty sure you love her ..." - she
whispered to herself.

She made her way back to her private quarters, with the weird
sensation that tomorrow was not going to be a good day. She sighed and
fell asleep, with her clothes on.

~*~*~

Next morning:

Marta wake up, her hair and dress were all messed up and she decided
to take a shower. After, she got dress.

Today she chose not to wear Fanélia's clothes. She put on some black
pants and a white shirt. She combed her still wet black hair.

She slightly hanged up her shirt, showing her scar. She sighed seeing
that it continued exactly the same. So many years have passed and it
still had the same appearance. It was not dirty or ugly, but it gave
her the crips cause part of her skin never born again. It was like she
almost two pieces, that were stuck by a tiny piece of skin that stood
together.

She closed her eyes and slightly massaged her tempers, her life was
better now that she came to Gaea, but still ... she felt bad cause she
was a snag to Van. She wanted to get a job and live far from the
palace, cause she didn't think it was right for her to stay in there.

«He owns me nothing ... so I shell not be in here!» - she decided to
go to city, to try to get a job somewhere. So she woke up early, well
... the same hour as ever.

When she got to the dinning-room (as usual) she found Van. he didn't
even looked at her.

"Good morning Van!" - she said as she walked to her seat.

"Good morning!" - it had passed days since that `incident' at her
private quarters, but since then, they almost didn't faced each other.
- Me and Merle are going to take a ride today! Want to join us?" - he
asked when Mika put the breakfast down on the table. - "Thank you
Mika!" - she nodded and got to the kitchen.

"No, thanks Van! I'm going to find a job!" - he stared at her for a
while.

"Why the hell do you want to get a job anyway?" - he asked furious.

"I'll not be in here forever! I'm an independent girl and I do not
intend to live under your money for the rest of my life!" - she almost
yelled at him. He smirked.

"As you wish!" - they said nothing more. Marta was the first to leave,
and when she was out Van sighed in disgust. - "Backa!"

~*~*~

Marta searched for the whole city, but there was nothing. She was
getting nuts! It was not possible that in a large city as that one, no
one had a job vacancy for her.

She got bored and decided to take a walk, out of Fanélia's walls.
Merle had once warned her not to go to the Fanélia's forest alone and
without a horse, but Marta was too `dreamy' and didn't care where she
was heading to.

Soon she entered the forest and walked without a defined destiny to
go. The dense forest was dark, although it was still a bright day. She
was thinking of something else. Not in Van or the job she wanted to
get, not even on the war that Zardus and Van fought for, she was
thinking about what Yukí had told her.

She never told anyone, but she had no memory from before her parents'
accident. She didn't even know how her parents looked like. It was all
blink. She knows nothing, she remembers nothing. Her life was all a
big sea of sad memories. The ones she wanted to remember, she
couldn't. The doctors said that her memory would come back ... some
day. It had already passed eleven years and not even a single memory
came out. She had nothing ... she is nothing. Tears came flooding from
her eyes. Why couldn't she be happy for a while? Why did every time
that something good happened in her life, something worst came to ruin
it all ...

Her eyes wined up when she listened to a very weird sound. Someone was
crying. No! Not someone ... something. She moved closer, to where the
sound came from.

As she approached she saw a baby-dragon crying out. An arrow was
trespassing his chest, close to his heart. He was bleeding like an
open tap and soon would die.

«Poor thing!» - she thought, as she got closer to him. Than a question
came flooding into her mind. «What if ... I'm her sister? Than I can
heal him, can't I? But how the hell do they do that?»

The dragon didn't liked her presence. Probably he had been attacked
and thought that she was trying to kill him once and for all. He tried
to launch a breath of fire, but he was to weak and only got weaker
from trying. She showed no fear, and smiled. This mitigated him and he
left her get closer, although he was still suspicious and alert for
any movement that she made.

She knew that if she removed the arrow, he would only bleed more ...
but she couldn't try to heal him, if the arrow stood there ... so she
took it off. The dragon cried out loudly and, with his head, thrown
her to against a tree. He rolled in the floor, cause of the pain. He
was bleeding too much! She got closer again, and he again snapped her
away. She tried it several times; each time the dragon was getting
weaker and weaker. Finally he gave up and she managed to get to his
wound. He was almost dead, his eyes were almost completely lost, his
skin was almost white from the lost of blood.

She closed her eyes and concentrated in healing him. She didn't really
believed she would make it, but she had nothing to lose! The blood
that soaked the ground of Fanélia's forest, started coming back to the
dragon, he started felling better. His eyes come back to normal and he
got up, as if nothing had happened. Although he was an animal, he
looked puzzled at his `saviour'. She opened her eyes and smiled when
she found out that she had made it.

"Well, little dragon ... I'll leave! Be careful next time!" - he
slightly rubbed his snout on her face. She smiled and leaved, heading
to Fanélia.

~*~*~

It was dark already. The others were having dinner, but Van was
searching for Marta all around the city. She had been gone since this
morning and he didn't like her to be alone at night.

He had almost searched in every street, every corner, and yet nothing.
He stopped and sighed. He leaned against some house's door.

It started raining and Van rembered that day, when he saw Hitomi and
Allen at the bridge. He smiled with his eyes closed and his clothes
getting completely soaked.

He heard some footsteps and opened his eyes. He smiled seeing Marta
walking like a zombie, under the intense rain. She did not see him, as
she passed by. It was too dark and he was still far away, at the end
of the street. He started walking towards her. As he got closer he
grabbed her arm and forced her too turn around. She had a lost look in
her eyes.

"Hei! Is everything all right?" - he asked concerned.

"Yes Van!" - she answered still looking down.

"Where the hell have you been? I've been looking everywhere for you!"
- she looked up and smiled.

"I didn't knew you cared so much about me!" - he blushed and smirked.

"Yes I do! You're my friend ... of course I care about you!" - the two
were soaked to the bones and the rain didn't wanted to stop. Van was
still grabbing her arm and they didn't give a step forward. - "What
are we waiting for? Lets get to the palace!" - she nodded. Van let off
her arm and the two walked to the palace, under the incessant rain.

~*~*~

Hitomi did not go to the gardens that night. It was raining too much.

She opened her bedroom's window and hoped that Zardus appeared. She
didn't wait much. He jumped to her window and Hitomi laughed seeing
how soaked he was.

"Nice hair-dress!" - she sarcastically said, seeing his completely wet
hair. It was in front of his eyes and he smirked under her `goodnight'
welcome.

"Very funny! Very, very funny! Can I come in?" - she nodded and he got
out from the window. Hitomi closed it and turned on the lamp.

"Take your shirt off! You'll get sick!" - he looked at her and than
turned around.

"I don't think so!" - she looked at him puzzled. - "I only came here
to say you goodnight. I shall leave!"

"Come on! I don't bite!" - she got closer to him and they kissed. She
got soaked too. - "Nice work!" - he smiled. She gone to the bathroom
and brought a towel, throwing it to him.

He got his cloak off and then his grey shirt. Hitomi took them to the
bathroom, while he cleaned himself. Hitomi got up after a while. He
sat on a chair and she `cleaned' his head.

"Hitomi I really think it is not wise for me to be here! I'd better
get going!" - he said getting up, after she finished. Hitomi stopped
him. She hugged him and leaned her head to his chest.

"Please, don't go! Stay just a little more!" - he sighed and hugged
her back.

"As you wish my love ..." - they kissed and Zardus stood a little
longer. Marta's words still floated in his mind!

Well, I'll just leave it like this. It sucks, doesn't it? You know,
that part of Van and Marta in the rain ... I really wanted them to
kiss, but I cannot do that. It would ruin the whole thing.

Hei! Don't even start thinking things! Hitomi and Zardus aren't going
to do nothing, ok? NOTHING!

So Marta is really Yukí's sister! What will Yukí do when she finds
out? Will Zardus and Hitomi get to more important business? Van has
just a crush on Marta, or is it something else? Does Marta love Van,
or it's just some stupid crush? Will Marta get out from the palace?
Will Van try to stop her? Will Allen find out about Celena and Sorú?
Will someone find out that Fanélia's ladies are in love with the
enemy? When will the next attack be? Why am I doing all this stupid
questions to you, when I'm the one who has the answers?

I know ... I'm crazy, freak and above all dumb.

Well, see you soon! E-mail me.

Bye, bye.

***

#Ana Nunes#