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MYSTIC MOON VACATION the Vision of Escaflowne 天空のエスカフローネ D i n k y MYSTIC MOON VACATION The Vision of Escaflowne 天空のエスカフローネ Sunrise サンライズ http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/ The Vision of Escaflowne is ©1996 Sunrise Licensed in the United States by Geneon Entertainment A Mystic Moon Vacation Adapted as a Novel by Dinky First published in 2008 on bbs.allanime.org Typeset by さくら All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the permission of the copyright holder. Table of Contents Mystic Moon Vacation...................................................................................................4 The Uneventful Arrival..............................................................................................4 Laughter and Gingerbread Legs.................................................................................7 DVDs and Clothes...................................................................................................11 Decorations and Desire............................................................................................13 Trees and Dishes......................................................................................................17 Eggs and Showers....................................................................................................21 Malls and Mayhem..................................................................................................23 Dancing and Groceries............................................................................................29 Family and Mistletoe...............................................................................................32 Presents and Princesses............................................................................................38 Backrubs and Kisses................................................................................................41 Phone Calls and Sledding........................................................................................44 Games and Secrets...................................................................................................51 Packing and Moving................................................................................................56 Snowboarding and Swimming.................................................................................60 Pizza and Surprises..................................................................................................68 Drinking and Dancing..............................................................................................71 Truth and Karma......................................................................................................76 Mornings and Musings............................................................................................82 Words and Realizations...........................................................................................85 Ranting and Hope....................................................................................................90 Fights and Snowmen...............................................................................................93 Plans and Cakes.......................................................................................................99 New Year's and Needs...........................................................................................107 Songs and Choices.................................................................................................116 Beginnings and Endings........................................................................................128 Page 3 of 192 Mystic Moon Vacation do not own Escaflowne or its characters. This is just a stupid lil fic idea that's been rattling around my head forever. So today I Idecided to finally write chapter one. This is my first fanfic with an OC, because in general I don't like main character OC, but whatever. This is meant to be a humorous, non-serious fanfic about Van visiting Hitomi for Christmas and New Years, and I just hope it will end up being somewhat amusing.. Anyway, Hitomi (and OC Annie) are 21, living in MN, United States, and they invite Van to visit for the holidays. So, we know how Hitomi dealt with suddenly being on Gaea. I've always wondered how Van would act visiting the Mystic Moon. Oh, and Allen. Yeah, he comes along...and sorry Allen fans, but I like to make life misereable for him! Please feel free to read and review and flame. I'm just hoping this doesn't suck too bad! If so, I'll stop updating! The Uneventful Arrival Hitomi leaned against the hood of her car, her breath coming out in little white puffs of air. She was parked in the middle of nowhere, empty, snow-covered fields stretching out on all sides. There was no sign of human activity for miles. Which, because of the reason she stood there waiting, was perfect. Page 4 of 192 The butterflies in Hitomi’s stomach felt more like trapped parakeets trying to escape. No matter what she tried, she couldn’t calm them. She was nervous, excited, terrified, and elated all at the same time. No wonder she felt like she was going to explode. Van was coming today, this afternoon, to spend the Christmas holidays with her. It was so unbelievable and unexpected, she still more than half expected that he wouldn’t appear. So as she stared at the leaden, grey winter skies, she was torn between hope and fear. Hope that he would show up just as planned, and afraid that she was just dreaming after all. Huddling farther into her coat for warmth, Hitomi silently cursed, and blessed, the one who had started this whole thing in the first place. Sometimes, Hitomi wished she’d never breathed a word of Gaea or Van to Annie, her psychotic roommate and firm best friend. But Annie had a way of weaseling every stinking secret out of each person she met. And poor Hitomi had been no match for her; basically just off the plane from Japan to the United States, a college freshman in her new dorm room with her intense, insane, new college roommate, Annie Goettenberg. Hitomi spilled the beans in less than a month. And Annie, crazy, unpredictable Annie, had believed every word of it. The two became tighter than sisters. Annie had decided, seeing as it was the first year that the two of them lived in the small, somewhat run-down house she had inherited from her grandmother, that Van must be their guest for Christmas. And when Annie decided something, it was final. Hitomi was stubborn, but Annie was an unstoppable force. And besides, Hitomi desperately wanted to see Van again. Oh, they saw each other- in a dreamlike way. In those moments between waking and sleeping, sometimes they would meet, and it was almost like being together. They couldn’t touch, and their images were blurry and transparent, but they could talk, and see each other’s faces, just for a brief while. Every night, Hitomi prayed that he would appear, and when he did, she’d memorize every blurry line of him, to cherish until the next time they met. And they’d always talk about someday, someday when they’d meet again in person. “Invite Van for Christmas!” Annie had demanded. And Hitomi had asked him, nervously, expecting him to immediately dismiss the idea as impossible. “Van,” she’d said quietly, wishing as always that she could touch him, “you know how we talk about seeing each other for real again someday?” Van scrutinized her silently and nodded. She gathered up her courage. “Well, Annie would like to invite you to stay with us over the holiday season,” Hitomi let out in a rush. She chewed her bottom lip nervously as Van just stared at her and didn’t say anything immediately. “It’s just…well, Christmas is a big deal here, and it’ll be the first Christmas without her grandma, and she’d really like you to come and share it with us,” Hitomi explained, wanting Van to stop staring at her with that look and say something. “I know you’re busy, and you probably can’t, but, well, we both would like it if you could. I—I would like it if you could…” Hitomi trailed off and wondered if her face was glowing from the hot blush on her cheeks. “When is this Christmas?” Van asked quietly. Hitomi nearly squealed with delight. He hadn’t rejected the idea outright! Page 5 of 192 “A month. Annie—I mean we—we were hoping you could come a few days before Christmas and stay until after New Year’s, which is a week after Christmas. I told her you probably couldn’t come for that long, though,” Hitomi said, trying to keep her soaring hope out of her voice. Van studied his feet, thinking, calculating. Hitomi tried not to fidget. “I think I could manage that,” he said, looking up with a slight smile. Hitomi stared a moment in shock, then jumped up and down a few times, laughing. Van just smiled wider. “Do you really mean it, Van? You’ll come to Earth?” Hitomi exclaimed. She silently cursed the fact that she couldn’t hug him until his ribs cracked. Van, if she only knew, was cursing the same fact. “Don’t get too excited yet. I have to talk it over with my council first.” “Oh,” Hitomi said, her smile falling slightly. “But you’re the king, so you can just tell them what you’re going to do, right?” “Sort of,” Van said, shaking his head but smiling. “There’ll be some details to work out, though. I’ll discuss it with them tomorrow, I promise.” And true to his word, he worked out the details, and the planned arrival was set. For today. This freezing cold December afternoon, in the
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