A light in the sky | By : FrostofEgarath Category: +G to L > Last Exile Views: 5245 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I do not own Last Exile, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. |
Disclaimer: I do not own Last Exile, Claus Valca, Dio Elaclaire,
Lavi Head, any other persons, any inventions, locations or any such content
presented in the animè. That belongs solely to GONZO animation studios.
Seriously, if I had owned them don’t you think I’d rather be doing
something else with the bishies than daydreamin about them? Like, make another
animè dedicated to them, and them only. Oh well, on with the fic.
(Oh, one little thing before you go. As I’m really a japanime fan, I tend
to use some common japanese terms. As to make this fully understandable to
anyone, I have listed the japanese words with a star [*], notifying that their
translations can be found at the end of the fic. Thanks for your patience. ^^ )
A light in the sky
Chapter 3
The barely audible voice made Claus, who was just about to turn the
handle of the door and emerge, jump into the air, and as his heart pace slowed
down a little, he turned around looking over at the bed: “...D-dio?” he
stammered, praying to the sky that he had not heard wrong, that it really had
been Dio’s voice saying his nickname in such a fashion.
“...Immelmann.”, another weak whisper sounded from the bed, though
stronger than the last, and really more worthy of the title “half-speaking”.
Claus felt some of the tears he had been struggling to keep back welling
up in his eyes: “Dio...I thought you were...I mean, I...”
Principal Elaclaire was unfazed, and merely looked up into the roof as he
had before, a cute, bewildered look on his face: “Where am I? What happened?”
Claus looked down, the shame belongin to the rolefailfailed protector
burning inside of him:
“”We...we tried to fight the Guild, to fight you si.I m.I mean, Maestro
Delphine...I...I mean we, tried to save you from what you seemed to fear so
much...eh?”
The blonde pilot halted himself with a small, somewhat surprised outburst
as he saw Dio’s eyes widen in fear, and his already pale face turning the color
of chalk: “I...I’m sorry...I shoudn’t have mentioned that...I...”
Dio took a few gasping intakes of breath, before he closed his eyes: “I’m
fine.” He turned his head, looking outthe the window with his usual, calm eyes,
reflectine bye by now heavy rainfall outside: “Continue, please.”, he
whispered, his voice hoarse from keeping back the fear he obviously felt.
Claus looked at Dio, wondering how strong this boy really was. He had
lived with the knowledge that something terrible, something that would make him
the opposite of what he really was, or wanted to be, something that would
alienate him from the world he so wanted to be a part of, would occur suring
his 18th birthweek. And in spite of this, he had managed to keep his mind
bright, and his facade happy, curious and carefree.
And in addition to this, he had, just now, seemingly shaken off a mind
spell more that was, if one should interpret Dio’s behaviour in the Guild, and
all the dead bodies Rook Dio left in his trail, an infinite numer of times more
powerful than the one that had taken Alex Rowe, then unbreakable and invincible
battleship commander, captive.
“A lot of things happened...and...” Claus said, taking a deep breath:
“...I don’t thing we should dwell too much in the past. What has happened has
happened, and our weary minds, especially yours, has enough on them from before
on to start worrying about that. Just know that we saved you and got you out of
there, and that everything will be okay from now...on...”
‘For crying out loud, I’m such a lousy liar!’, Claus thought to himsellf,
clamping his eyes shut in frustration: ‘Nothing is allright, we are not gonna
be fine just like that, the crew of the Sylvana is lost to me...it really seems
as pitch black as the darkest night in my world.’
“Immelmann...”
Claus snapped out of his thoughts after a second, looking at Dio with
big, confused eyes: “Unh?”
Why does Dio keep calling Claus “Immelmann”? Is it some sort of
nickname?
Yeah, it is. The first time Dio saw Claus flying his vanship, he
performed a quite difficult maneuvre that is called the “Immelmann turn”, where
the pilot first takes the plane into a 180 degrees vertical loop, and while
performing the half-loop does a half barrel-roll. (Note that this maneuvre is
very possible, and is a real, much-used move with small, personal airplanes and
firhet planes from WW2, and back. For a graphic explanation, go to
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/Lift/Immelmann.html and have a look.)
Apparently, Dio was mesmerized with Clau’s performance of this move, and
decided to simply call him “Immelmann” since then, as Claus refused to tell him
his real name.
See you again next chapter! *hugs*
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