Okay, so today I'm posting my storyboard for 'Scorpion's Reach'. It was going to be the last book in my Escaflowne trilogy, but now it's not going to be anything, so I'm going to post my storyboard here for good measure. Kaytala told me that it was a pretty roomy storyboard. I think I'll take that as a compliment. It doesn't look anything like my 'Ghost Mist' storyboard, but that's because 'Ghost Mist' isn't fanfiction and needs far more information to make the story complete. For 'Ghost Mist' I have a character profile folder with over twenty characters listed, a locations folder with information on all key settings, the storyboard, and a review of the mythology of the area. Holy crap! Well, enough on that - here's my storyboard that will never get used.
Chapter 1 - Hitomi and Van's Story
Hitomi dreams that Dilandau is telling her not to bring Van to the city. If she brings him then he'll die. Then Hitomi is on her yacht with Van and she's being interviewed by The Historian (Agatha). Some of the questions The Historian might ask her will be:
1. The complete story of the vision she had when she got her abilities.
2. How she met Van.
3. What are her confirmed elements?
4. What other powers does she have?
5. What's her relationship like with her real family?
6. What was her relationship with Akira like?
7. Question about her life span?
Then she could ask Van all the same questions. At the end of the chapter, she gets a cell phone call from her daughter (Eriya). Eriya is engaged to Folken and they want her to come to the city for the wedding. Hitomi and Van are also invited.
Chapter 2 - Back to the City
Hitomi, Van, and Agatha Beech all head back to the city for the wedding. They arrive at Aunt Flo's and Hitomi meets with Aunt Flo, which is still not 100% pleasant, but she has a lot more on her mind now that Folken and Eriya are together. Aunt Flo has also started to date the doctor, so there's a lot less to worry about. Hitomi gives Eriya her congratulations and Eriya is very happy. Shortly after they arrive, Folken takes Van and Hitomi into the den and tells them that Naria took off as soon as it was confirmed that he had chosen Eriya - she was unbelievably pissed off and there was nothing he could do to stop her. Hitomi wants to know where she'd go. Folken says that he can't think of what she'd do besides go to 'The Scorpion' (the Vengence Card), because she was so desperate to be in a contract. So, she's gone to Dilandau. Folken knows that there's nothing that he can do, but is there anything that Van and Hitomi can do? Hitomi says that there's no point in her going to Dilandau, because Dilandau only loves Celena. She won't get what she wants out of him. Folken agrees that she probably won't get the contract she wants out of him, but he'll probably find a way to use her nonetheless. No one knows Dilandau better than Folken. Van questions him about the disbanding of the Zaibach group. Folken says that there isn't a thing he could do along those lines - Dornkirk expected Folken to die around the same time he did - so Dornkirk's plan was to have Dilandau inherit from the start. Dilandau was the whole reason Dornkirk came to the city. So, no one is listening to Folken - he's supposed to be dead. The other thing is that Folken says that Dilandau is a lot different than he was when Hitomi and Van knew him. Folken talks about how much he changed after Celena was taken from him, and then Dornkirk tied him up with those scorpions and now he's different again. Folken's worried that he might try to come after him and everyone else. Hitomi and Van can't do anything at that exact moment, so they go to bed that night. Sleeping in Van's old bedroom. And Hitomi has a dream about Dilandau. She sees him. He's alone in a room scraping a knife against a porcelain doll. His eyes are surrounded in black smudges and then Naria rolls over in the bed - the sheets are covering her, but she's clearly naked. Hitomi wakes up. Holy crap!
Chapter 3 - Shotgun Wedding
It's now March and the wedding takes place in a church in the city (it's still grey and non-fun outside). Van and Agatha are the witnesses. Eriya looks great - and we'll do a long description of her and Folken. The wedding is really quiet and the only guests are Hitomi, Aunt Flo and the doctor. They don't have a best man or a maid of honour, but Eriya looks so happy she can hardly breath. Hitomi has a flashback where she woke up in the middle of the night and told Van about her dream - he's very disturbed. Hitomi talks to him about how the scorpion symbolizes revenge and Van is really worried about Folken and Eriya - especially if Naria is involved and pissed off. At the end of the reception, Van offers Folken his and Hitomi's yacht for a honeymoon. They should go away for a couple months. Van puts them on a plane out to the coast so they can pick up the boat and go for a cruise. He also gives Folken the protection pendant as a wedding present and tells him to wear it himself. Hitomi thinks that was very nice of him. But Van's vexed and troubled. He still wants to take down the Zaibach group and he doesn't want to wait for Dilandau to make enough mistakes for Chid to come after him and Hitomi to let him go - he wants to be preventative, so he says they are going to get an appartment in the city and try again to end this trouble - once and for all.
Chapter 4 - First Apartment
This is the first time that Hitomi and Van are really on their own. They get a little apartment in the downtown of the city. Van gets a job working as an assistant pharmasist at a local drugstore. Hitomi spends the first part of her time going shopping and buying things for their new home. This could be a really fun chapter. We get to talk about her cooking and waiting for Van to come home. Her thinking about not finishing high school.
Chapter 5 - First Visitor
Chid comes to Van and Hitomi's apartment. He's extremely distraught about something. His angel is missing. Sarah is his angel - his mythical creature to help him through his life and his mission. He's very worried about her and he came to ask Hitomi to help him find her. Hitomi searches her mind and tells him that Dilandau has taken her. Chid is furious, but Hitomi doesn't know where to find Dilandau, Naria or Sarah. Van argues with Chid not to go off half cocked, but Chid is furious - he doesn't even know where to go. He ends up fighting Van until he really hurts him and then he calms down - heals him and goes to sleep in Van and Hitomi's room - shuts the door behind him.
Chapter 6 - God's Wrath
Van and Hitomi are sleeping on the couch together. Intimate conversation. BREAK. Chid is determined to go after Dilandau, so he's going to go talk to Merle about where he might be (just in case the police know). Van goes to work and Hitomi sits and tries to figure out where Dilandau might be. Chid comes back and says that a Dragon Slayer spoke to him in the police station. He told him that if he can find a way to turn Celena over to Dilandau then he'll give him Sarah back without any trouble. Hitomi tells him that she won't allow him to give Celena back. She's seven months pregnant (It's the end of March). Hitomi promises him that she'll go to Dilandau pretending to be Celena if Chid can wait until the baby is born. That means he'll have to control himself for possibly another two months. Chid doesn't want to wait that long but Hitomi reminds him that many people have been left in the Dragon Slayers company for long periods of time and only the weak willed change. She'll be okay as long since Dilandau already took Naria as his contract bound woman. Chid finally agrees and sends Dilandau a message via the police officer that he's on his way to get Celena now, but she can't be flown back to America as she's in her third trimester, so he'll have to wait. And nothing had better happen to Sarah in the mean time. They leave before Dilandau has received the message because Hitomi wants to protect Dryden from any unwanted attention (just in case Dilly wants revenge on him too).
Chapter 7 - Paradise Months
They go to the Fassa mansion in Madrid and wait for Celena to have her baby. Here we can do a reunited sequence with Allen, Gaddes, Celena, Dryden, Selphie and Eries. This is also the chapter where Chid heals Celena and her baby so that it is born healthy and Celena is no longer a drug attict. At the end of the chapter the vacation is over and Celena's baby is born. It's a baby girl and her name is Celice. (This is also a chapter where Dryden tells Hitomi that he can't have children with Selphie after all. He's just the same as any other Tarot user).
Chapter 8 - Behind Blue Eyes
Hitomi transforms into Celena and apparently leaves 'Hitomi' to take care of the new baby while they go to return 'Celena' to Dilandau. Van and Chid walk out of the mansion with her as Celena, but Van's messed up by the situation - he wants to be with Hitomi but he can't act like she's herself when she looks like Celena and she can't transform because Dilandau might be watching. Also, Hitomi is afraid all the time. She keeps wanting to turn to Van because of how afraid she is, but she can't. It's really hard for them. They get back to the city and move into a hotel suite until Chid can get a message to Dilandau about their arrival.
Chapter 9 - Scorpion's Reach
So, they get the information of where they are supposed to do the trade off. It's in the basement of the Stadium - a right crappy place because of the complicated layout. Hitomi's grouchy about it. But they prepare to go that night anyway.
They come down the stairs and Naria is there - she's going to lead them to Dilandau and Sarah. She takes them aroudn for a bit before she finds them. Hitomi wants to talk to her about her crappy decision but she can't because Celena and Naria have never met before. And Celena definitely doesn't know that Dilandau has been sleeping with another woman. So, Hitomi has to keep quiet. Once they find Dilly, Naria leads them into the room. Dilandau is standing in a room with a door behind it. He welcomes them and tells them that Sarah is in the room behind them, but she can't come out until he proves whether or not Celena is really herself. First, he rips open Hitomi's top to see if she has his name engraved into her chest. Van can't do anything and he's about to explode. Dilandau still isn't convinced. He starts undoing Hitomi's pants and Van loses it. He pins him to the wall and threatens to kill him. Dilandau says that he knew that it wasn't Celena. Naria looks happy that it wasn't. He says that Van took Celena from him and that makes him want to take Hitomi from him - just to even things out. Chid interrupts with Hell fire and asks Dilly to stop screwing around. He wants Sarah and now that he knows she's in that room, he can't wait any longer - the door has a lock that only he can open - and he made the door from something to stop Chid from opening it with his fire. Dilly says that he didn't keep his end of the deal - he brought Hitomi instead. Although - he will make Chid a deal, because he still has something that Dilly wants. They talk alone in a corner. Dilly looks like he has the upper hand, at last Chid agrees. He goes over to Hitomi and tells her that she and Van are to take Sarah as soon as Dilandau opens the door and go like mad. Van asks him if he's trading himself for Sarah. Chid smiled and says 'sometimes we can't stop people from doing wrong things'. He has to allow Dilandau the opportunity to F&&* up, and so Hitomi and Van are to do exactly what Chid tells them too. Sarah comes out of the door and Hitomi grabs her and pulls her from the room. Hitomi and Sarah see Chid's hair on the floor before the door shuts. Sarah is screaming, but Van pulls both of them from the doors and hurries them up the stairs.
Chapter 10 - Crushing Flower Petals
They are back at Hitomi and Van's apartment (It's been three days). Sarah sits at the windows and watches the rain as she crushes a pillow in her lap. There was no blood when Dilandau killed Chid. Chid had no blood. Hitomi can't believe that he's truly dead, but when she sees Sarah's reaction she thinks that he is, because no one could mourn like that for someone who was not dead. There was no vision - Chid had no children. Hitomi is afraid that she's already become the goddess because of Chid's passing (might have accelerated her progress). She goes into the bathroom and intentionally cuts her fingers for the first time in her life - she doesn't bleed. She cuts deeper, but there isn't a drop of blood. She sqeezes her finger until a drop of blood finally falls into the sink. Then she bandages herself up and goes to mourn for herself as well as Chid by the windows with Sarah. Van went to buy food and when he sees the two of them crying all over each other he rushes to comfort Hitomi, but she won't touch him. She wanted to have children and now she's doesn't think she'll be able to. She tells him there was only one drop of blood. He takes Hitomi by the hand and takes her into the bedroom. She goes to sleep after some non-described sex and when she wakes up she feels comforted. Instead of having children, she suddenly feels that the most important thing in this life is for her to be there for Van. She's his soul mate and it has nothing to do with anything else. He was a neglected child. He would get all her love from now on. Just like what she was trying to give him in exchange for Folken - now she would give him everything that she was because she wanted to.
Chapter 11 - A Burning at Sea
Folken shows up on their doorstep the next day (four days after Chid's death). He's got Eriya with him. He sits down and tells them what happened. He tells them that he and Eriya were attacked on Van and Hitomi's yacht. Dilandau boarded at the dock without being noticed by the captain or crew. Once they pushed off, he came on deck with Naria (had a knife pointed at her throat). He tells Folken that he'd better turn himself over for punishment (by the vengence card) if he wants Naria to live. Folken doesn't even bat an eyelash, but instead moves to protect Eriya. Folken tells him that he chose Eriya and so Naria means nothing to him - Dilandau can go ahead and kill her if he wants. Dilandau puts away his knife and moves to fight Folken right there and then, but Folken won't allow it. He uses all his elements (darkness and air) and gets them out of there. Dilandau burned the yacht (probably killed the three crew members). Folken's there partly to apologize. Folken says that there has been enough crap. It's about time they took down the Zaibach group with full force instead of any of this trash. Van isn't sure what he has in mind or why he's suddenly got all rowdy. Folken says he doesn't take well being threatened by Dilandau.
Chapter 12 - Saturday Night
Hitomi is at home watching T.V. with Sarah and Eriya. They are watching a report on the Zaibach group and how many of them have been caught. Folken gave them all the information he had about everyone and slowly, slowly, they were being caught and charged and prosecuted for everything they'd ever done. Folken and Van were't going to come back anytime soon, so the three of them were having a slumber party. Totally safe because all three of them are Tarot users. They end up eating junk food to celebrate and playing truth or dare. This could turn out to be really fun. But at the same time, Dilandau's going to spazz.
Chapter 13 - The Vengence Card
The next day Hitomi goes to get the mail and there is an express envelope from The Historian. Inside, is an account of The Scorpion. It's a threat by Dilandau to anyone who crosses him. He says that there are certain tarot users he wants to get even with and he's sending this list to everyone through The Historian so that they all know how much trouble they're in.
1. Folken Fanel
2. Van Fanel
3. Hitomi Fanel
4. Dryden Fassa
He also announces that he's killed The Sun God. He's filling his shoes now. Justice is now what he says it is. So anyone helping or caring for these people will be listed later on - so everyone better wisen up. And if they are truly wise - they'll join him. So, it looks like he's planning to create a syndicate out of Tarot users. Sarah says that he's probably realized by now that they are probably the only members worth having. Everyone else is weak. Hitomi gets on the phone and calls Dryden. Dryden says that he won't leave Madrid and nor will he leave the mansion until they've caught Dilandau, because he'll probably come and try to take Celena if he goes anywhere. He doesn't want to take the chance - her baby is so cute! Dryden wants to protect the baby. So they have to hurry up and punish him. But can Hitomi punish him right now? Chid's words keep ringing in her head. Sometimes you have to let someone screw up.
Chapter 14 - Broken Angel
Hitomi, Eriya and Sarah have all been hanging out in the apartment, but Hitomi begins to notice that Saria leaves for hours at a time. Hitomi doesn't know her well. She's a complete wild card and so Hitomi disguises herself as Amano and follows her. Sarah goes to the Dragon Slayer Stadium. She's walking around the parking lot kicking the dirt and bending down to pick up rocks with her hands. She goes and touches the wall of the building and rests her head on the metal siding. Hitomi approaches her and asks her what she's doing behind police lines. Saria says that she's not convinced that Chid's body isn't still here - she wants it. He's probably rotted. She says she doesn't care. She wants to kiss him goodbye. My life might end, but my passion for him will never fade. If only his bones are left - I want them. Hitomi considers breaking into the building in order to look, but decides to call Merle to find out if they can get into the building legitimately. The answer is no - the police haven't finished investigating it. Merle is happy as a clam about the Zaibach group getting put out of business. Hitomi gets off the phone with her and takes Sarah home with her. Hitomi rushes to Van once they're alone and tells him how much she loves him. This will be another good place for a little mush to fill up a bit of space.
Chapter 15 - Dornkirk's Legacy
It looks like Folken and Eriya will be in the city for the next five or six years dismantling the Zaibach group. The police have arranged for a house for them during the prosecutions of the different synicate members. Folken will be the primary witness for most of them. The only thing is that a couple of them are unaccounted for - Dallet, Miguel, and Naria. They can't find them anywhere. Probably with Dilandau. Van has decided to stay and make it his responsibility that Folken lives through this, so he and Hitomi aren't going anywhere. It's meaningless if he dies before all of them get what's coming to them. But it looks like the Zaibach group is finally finished. The police look for Chid's body, but they can't find anything in the stadium, The Voltage Room, or Dornkirk's mansion. Folken has no idea what he's done with it. But what will happen with Dilandau if no one goes after him - he might go after Dryden. Van thinks that he'll probably go after Dryden since Dryden's on his list and he's the only one not involved with the police right now. Hitomi thinks they should try to chase him. Van says they don't know where he is. Hitomi tries to use her vision to figure out his location, but she can only see what he's doing just then and it doesn't help her at all. He's smoking in a nightclub watching girls dance. Naria is behind him. She's rubbing his shoulders, but he's taking no notice of her. Hitomi is realizing the limits of her capacity. She thinks that if she pushes herself to learn her abilities better, she'll lose her chance to be a mother and so she puts Dilandau out of her mind. She's being selfish, but some part of her must be human right?
Chapter 16 - Scorpion wo Sagashite
Sarah approaches Hitomi and tells her that she overheard her and Van's arguement. She wants to know if Hitomi has any idea where Dilandau might be. Hitomi tells her that she had a vision of him at a night club, but it gave no hint as to where Dilandau was hiding. Sarah asks her to please check her vision again. Hitomi closes her eyes and almost gets a glimse of Dilly showering. URGH! She tells Sarah that she doesn't know, but then Hitomi gets the idea to go to his house (his parent's house) and ask them where he is, but to do that she has to confess to Sarah that she was once his friend. Sarah takes it much better than Hitomi expects. She says that all Tarot users are connected for good and for ill. So Hitomi and Sarah go to Dilandau's house to talk to his family. They arrive at the house and Hitomi knocks on the door. Dilandau's mother answers and asks Hitomi to come in. The place isn't very nice and his father is passed out in an armchair in the living room. Hitomi walks in and looks at him - she thinks he's dead. She asks Dilly's mother where he is. She tells them that he hasn't been living at home since before he was friends with Hitomi. She's surprised that Hitomi didn't know that he only visited. She has no idea where he is. Sarah takes Hitomi's arm and takes her out of the apartment. Hitomi asks her if she could tell whether or not Dilly's mother was lying. Sarah says it doesn't matter. She's knows that those people have nothing to do with him. Dilandau's father is dead and has been for over ten years. Dornkirk was Dilandau's great uncle. Sarah says that she wants to find Dilandau because she has to find Chid, but she doesn't know how. Hitomi asks her if she has any powers that will aid her in finding Chid's body. Sarah says no. Hitomi offers to lend her her skills, but the more Hitomi looks at this girl she is less and less likely to believe that she is an angel like Chid said she was. She's not angelic at all. There's something else about her - something sinister.
Chapter 17 - Nobody's Angel
Hitomi goes to Dryden's mansion and is invited in by Belinda. Hitomi says that she wants to have a look at something in the house and she doesn't think Dryden would object. Belinda knows that Dryden would welcome Hitomi and Van into his home for any reason and lets her in. Hitomi goes to the west wing and enters the training gym. It's in perfect condition. Apparently, Van fixed it. She goes in by herself and locks all the doors tightly. Then she transforms into Sarah (Kira). Hitomi tries to use Darkness and it works. An angel has darkness? The Devil had light. Hitomi tries to use light but it doesn't work. Hitomi can't use fire, lightning, ice, and she has no idea how to use earth. Finally, she tries water and it works. Sarah's elements are water and darkness. The next thing Hitomi needs to find is her symbol which should be tattooed somewhere on her body. Hitomi starts apologizing to herself as she starts stripping. But she doesn't have to go far to find the answer. Sarah always wears clothing that goes up to her throat. On her chest is a syth that's about to cut off her head and there are words written across the blade. It says "I would die for you". That means that Sarah is The Death Card. Hitomi does not understand why the Sun God's lover is Death. She's more wigged out than she's ever been and goes into the gallery to find Sarah's painting, but she can't find anything. Why not? She heads home.
Chapter 18 - Dying with Every Inch
Hitomi goes back to the apartment and finds Sarah sitting in the windowsill. She asks her outright if she's a Death Goddess. Sarah says she thought Hitomi already knew. Hitomi tells her that Chid said she was an angel and she didn't think for a moment that Chid would lie to her. Sarah says that Chid didn't lie. She was the only thing that wouldn't die on him - she was an angel. And he used to borrow her sythe. Hitomi asks her if she's planning on killing Dilandau if she ever finds him. Sarah says she wants Chid - that's all. It was never up to her who Chid killed anyway. Why isn't there a picture of her? She says she was born before Chid. She was one of the original Tarot users. What does that mean? Sarah explains that a long time ago people used to worship other things instead of their creator - and some were cursed because of their blasphemy. This was their punishment - to not be able to have children with the person they loved. Almost no Tarot user finds happiness, but Chid and her have been waiting for almost two thousand years for another Goddess and her mate to be born to replace those that killed themselves (the original Tarot users). She needs to find his body. It's more important than anything that the curse on Tarot users be broken, and Chid had almost made it. Now is the time - there are four gods again representing Life (Van) Death (Sarah) Chid (Justice) and Hitomi (Mercy). If they can break the curse than Hitomi can have children, but right now she needs to become the goddess and they need to find Chid's body. Can Sarah resurrect him? She says 'no' she cannot. But she must find him. She wants Chid's body whether they can break the curse or not and she'll do whatever she can to find him. Once again Hitomi is totally won over by Sarah's passion and she dives for a vision of Dilandau. This time he's peering through the window of Dryden's castle in Madrid (looking at Celena).
Chapter 19 - Breaking Battle
Hitomi goes and convinces Van to leave Folken and to travel back to Madrid with Sarah and herself. They have to get Dilly and he's right there. Van is worried that it's a trick to get them away from Folken so that Dilandau can have his revenge. Finally, Sarah says that they don't need him. They have to find Chid. Hitomi and Sarah go alone to Madrid. They find him and Hitomi tells him that Van didn't come because he thought it was a trick so that he could get to Folken. Dilandau smiles and says that it was a trick so that he could get to her. Then we'll have Dilandau and Hitomi fight. Hitomi has to get about 10x more vicious than she's previously been. Sarah interupts and starts to take on Dilandau herself. She says that Hitomi mustn't fight if she's going to become the Goddess. Instead she must search Dilandau's heart to see if he's worthy to be forgiven. Hitomi can't do it. She can't see everything that he's done. There's a pulsing in her abdomen and she's suddenly terrified that she actually became pregnant - that will ruin everything right now. Because she'll be completely stripped of her abilities and she can't remember when her last period was. She's terrified, and so she tries to transform into Dilandau, but she just feels sick - like she's going to throw up. What has she done? In the end, Sarah kicks Dilandau in the head and bolts grabbing Hitomi by the hand and getting them into Dryden's mansion - where he's waiting for them.
Chapter 20 - Selfish Wish
Hitomi and Sarah are in the house and Sarah hauls her away from everyone (except Dryden) who she can't stop from following them (after he's sure that Dilly can't enter). She asks Hitomi if there is any possibility that she's pregnant. Is she still bleeding? Has she become the goddess yet? Sarah looks angry as Hell when Hitomi answers that she was still bleeding last time she checked and it's possible, she and Van haven't been using a contraceptive for the past eight months (at least). Hitomi apologizes and Sarah's like 'not as sorry as you're going to be'. She rips out her sythe and cuts Hitomi on the forearm. Hitomi bleeds and Sarah screams. Dryden doesn't understand, but he arranges for a pregnancy test to be delivered to the house asap. Hitomi has to phone Van and tell him what happened with Dilandau, because she was supposed to phone him to let him know if everything turned out okay. Dryden calms everyone down. Hitomi goes and holds Celice and tries to comfort herself that even if the test is positive, that doesn't mean she won't be able to break the curse in the future and she'll have a lovely little baby.
Chapter 21 - Backlash
Sarah goes after Dilandau in a big way. She's so pissed off at Hitomi that she can hardly breathe, and she leaves before Hitomi takes the pregnancy test. She says she's going to find Chid no matter what and she'll talk to Hitomi when she has something to say to her. Hitomi waits for the pregnancy test to arrive and then she heads back to the city. She doesn't want to take the test without Van. So, she goes home - tells him the whole story and cries on him (at this point she still hasn't taken the test). Folken phones and says that Van and Hitomi have to come to the stadium asap - they found something that the police can't see and he wants Van and Hitomi to help him cover it up before one of the investigators sees it. They go to the stadium and Eriya and Folken are there. There was a trap door under one of the secret rooms (one that Folken knew about because he helped build it and he put sorcery on it to stop people from noticing it). Under the floorboards they find an iron maiden and when they open it up - they find Chid. He's decomposed - a lot and there isn't much left but bones. Suddenly, Sarah comes in and slams the door shut and locks it. She looks like she's going to kill somebody. She looks like she's going for Hitomi, but at the last second - she cuts Van and drops his blood onto Chid's body. She tells him to use his Earth ability to raise Chid - that is the true use of earth. Van does it and it works.
Chapter 22 - Testing the Water
After the happy reunion between Sarah and Chid, Sarah asks Hitomi if she's taken the pregnancy test yet. She says that she hasn't. They send her to a bathroom a few doors over and wait outside for her to finish. She comes into the bathroom and doesn't notice that Naria is waiting on the other side of the door - they stab her through the chest. Really intense, but Hitomi doesn't die right away. She bleeds nastily, but she pulls the knife out herself and drops it on the floor. Her body isn't hurting - the pain is gone. Naria is freaking out - she's never killed anyone before. Hitomi touches Naria's face, who is now trying to stop the bleeding, and she tells her that she forgives her for what she's done. It's okay - and at that moment Hitomi becomes the goddess. The bleeding stops and Hitomi can stand up. She leaves Naria and tells her to become a good person from now on. She goes into the room with everyone else and tells them that she's not pregnant and she's the goddess. (this chappy will have good pyrotechnics - hopefully equal to Van reaching his potential)
Chapter 23 - The End of an Era
Every Tarot user is stripped of their power and Folken ensures that Dilandau is caught and put in prison - much easier to catch now that he doesn't have any powers. Selphie becomes pregnant, Celena no longer lives in fear. Hitomi goes home and introduces her parents to Van and decides to go to a local community college in order to get her high school diploma. Van's no longer a monster and Folken doesn't have the black of the crow's nature to content with anymore - much easier to be a good person. Naria goes to prision, but she's happy to - she wants to repay her debt (three years).
Chapter 24 -
I don't know if there will be one - I think if I did a slight redistribution of chapter info - that would be taken care of in a jiffy.
Hiya! I promised that I would write a list of my favourite parts in my Escaflowne series (these aren't in any particular order). Here they are:
