A/N: Sorry for the late update but this is a long chapter for once (3000 words XD) so I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer:…Knew I forgot one of these…. Any way I do not own Escaflowne or anything related, this stands for all previous and future chapters.

Chapter 7 More mayhem on the Vione.

"So where do you wanna go?" Nanashi asked as we strolled along on of the corridors of the Vione.

"I don't know, we don't know our way around here." I answered looking around thinking how everything looked so the same.

"Hmmm, well shall we just walk around and see where we come to?" She asked turning to me.

"Okay then." I shrugged.

We walked around for about five minutes until Nanashi found a room of interest. I hadn't noticed and carried on walking.

"Hey Kari-Chan I think I found something that might be fun to investigate." I walked back to her and looked into the small room, there was a desk to one side and the walls were lined with books and cabinets and a door led of to another room. "Wow, lookie." Nanashi chipped as she wrapped the overly sized black cloak around her. "Either he has more than one or that he hasn't got it on right now." She randomly pondered. "I wonder where this door goes?" She thought getting distracted again. "Wow, that's a big bed!" Nanashi seemed to glide across the room as she noticed the cabinet containing Folken's liquor. "So he drinks alcohol?" She said more to herself then to me as she picked the lock.

"You sound surprised, considering wine is just about all they drink on Gaea." I said as she looked at the wine after successfully picking the lock on the cabinet.

"I thought you would be looking for your Folken Plushie by now?" She said to me looking quite odd in Folken's Sorcerers cloak the high collar just coming above her head.

"You think he left it in here?" I asked as I looked in the cabinets picking the locks as I went (Nanashi had taught me how years ago).

"Yeah that or it's in his bedroom over there." She answered pointing towards the other door. "I bet you it's in there."

"What ever." I turned my back on her and carried on looking, I began to search his desk coming across a locked draw.

Unbeknownst to me Nanashi had left the room taking four bottles of wine with her, as she walked down the hall in the opposite direction we had come in Folken was returning to his room and spotted the young girl scurrying off in his cloak around a corner. He saw that his room door was open and stepped in just as I had opened the lock on the draw and found my Folken Plush.

"There you are!" I said happily picking up the plush doll.

"I could say the same thing about you." I screamed and fell over the chair at the desk as Folken made his presence known. I stood and stared at the young Sorcerer who as Nanashi had guessed was not wearing another cloak and instead a cream piece of fabric much like a cloak worn to one side was covering the false arm.

"How did you get out of your room?" He asked sternly his brown/red eyes noticing the plushie held tightly in my arms.

"Same way I got into the draw." I answered, pushing it closed and stepping away from the desk. "Wait what happened to Nanashi?" I asked changing the subject noticing she had left the room.

"Your Friend left down the hall." Folken answered gesturing that I leave his room and find her.

"Bugger I think she took some wine with her."

As I walked down the hall, still tightly holding my Folken plushie and with the real version following behind me I heard the unmistakable sound of Nanashi's voice…and what I heard wasn't good.

I opened the door to the room which I found out to be Dilandau's throne room to see Nanashi stood (still in Folken's cloak) on the arm of the large lion throne.

"NOW THE WARS OVER MUSSOLINI'S DEAD!" She yelled half singing rocking and kicking up her legs as if she was marching. "HE WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN WITH THE CROWN UPON HIS HEAD!" She carried on singing, I noticed that she had a almost empty bottle in her hand and that Dilandau was sat in his chair laughing at her some of the dragon slayers stood by the wall looking concerned but too afraid to step in.

"THE LORD SAYS NO…YOU'VE GOT TO GO BELOW…HE'S ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO!" As she finished the song she flung her arms back and fell over onto Dilandau's lap, they both laughed manically.

"Who's Mussolini?" Dilandau asked in-between the laugher.

"Some fat, dictator guy that died." She answered, Nanashi stood up although didn't notice myself and Folken stood at the door. She gulped down the rest of the bottle.

"See the little goblin." She began to sing.

"Oh my god please shoot me!" I sighed, recognising the song.

"See his little feet." Nanashi made her way across the room towards poor Miguel who was stood beside the others. "See his little nosey wosey." She continued prodding the dragon slayers nose. "Isn't the goblin sweet?" She sang pinching his cheeks.

Suddenly Nanashi's face went pale as she stopped laughing and before Miguel could ask if she was alright she had emptied the contents of her stomach onto his shoes.

Naturally Dilandau was having a laughing fit at the expense of his dragon slayers, until they noticed Folken walking into the room Nanashi also noticed him and seemed to quickly get over her sickness.

"Look it's the little birdie-man." She said pointing at the Leader of the Vione. "Strategoos… Strateago… Stratagoat?" Dilandau laughed as she tried to remember his name. Folken stood still keeping his calm unlike the Dragon slayers who were crapping their pants in fear of what would happen.

"Nanashi please stop this." I said walking up to my friend.

"KARI!" She screamed taking me in a bear hug. "I don't know what you see in him you know?" She began pointing over to Folken, her arm around my shoulders.

"He's just a birdie-goat man that has a claw…oooooo it's the claw!" She mocked pretending that her hand was a claw. I blushed as Nanashi continued, "I bet you really wanted to come back here…you know with Prissy boy hitting on you like that I would have castrated him by now…I bet you wouldn't mind if it was Birdie-goat though." I felt my cheeks burn as she openly said that I had a crush on Folken although I had little time to react as I noticed Nanashi turn pale again. I pushed her off me as she was sick again.

"I think we need to get you back to our room." I stated as I placed one of her arms around my shoulders and walked her out of the room…making sure not to look at Folken or any of the Dragon slayers as I left.

"Awww…Kari-Chan you're so boring." She moaned as I walked her back to our room.

III

"Wow my head hurts." Nanashi stated as she sat up. "But not as much as I would have thought it would."

"Well you were out for 48 hours."

"Really? What happened?" She asked turning to me as I sat on my bed playing a game of solitaire.

"You stole 4 bottles of Folken's liquor, got rat-arsed with Dilandau and made a complete fool out of yourself." I answered plainly not taking my eyes off my game.

"Well yeah I knew the first part but come on it wasn't that bad?" She asked.

"You did sing the Mussolini song." Nanashi cringed. "And the Goblin song…to Miguel." Nanashi flopped back on to her pillow.

"Did I really?" She asked concerned. I Nodded. "Shit."

"Oh and does 'The Birdie-goat man' ring any bells?" Nanashi shot up again.

"I didn't?" She asked with a gasp.

"You did." I answered.

"Oh bloody hell, I'm such an idiot!" She cursed as she stomped around the room. "Is this a different room?" She pondered suddenly.

"Yeah they decided we needed a more secure room, this one has bolts on the outside and if you haven't noticed we don't have windows either." Nanashi looked at all the walls then sat back on her bed.

"Wanna play a game of shit head?"

"Okay, three rows?" I asked as I dealt the cards.

III

Later that day after losing six consecutive games of shit head that is until I noticed my friend cheating I was glad to leave the room as we were required to stand before Folken and receive a punishment.

"I wonder what our punishment will be?" Nanashi asked as the guard escorted us to where were to go.

"I'm guessing yours will be worse than mine." I said walking slightly in front of her. After not hearing a response I turned to see that as we had turned a corner Nanashi had not. "Damn that girl!" The guard in a panic left me to go find her as he had been warned that she might try something like that, naturally he told me to stay, and naturally I didn't.

"Hey Strategos." I said casually as I walked into his room. The Blue-ish haired man sighed when he saw I was alone.

"Where is Hikage-san?"

"Don't know." I shrugged then sitting down on a large, padded chair resting my feet on a table. "She disappeared yet again, and I believe she stole the guards lighter too. The lamps on the Vione are Gas right?" Folken sighed placing his index and middle fingers of his left hand to his temple in irritation.

"Stay here." He demanded taking his leave most likely to order some soldiers to find the disruptive child.

With Nanashi.

Nanashi walked along the corridors of the Vione musing herself with the lighter she had 'borrowed' off the guard when she too noticed that the lamps in the Vione were indeed gas powered, naturally the pyromaniac saw this as a prime opportunity to test her skills.

"Hmm I wonder where all this leads too." She thought as she followed a tube along the corridor. She noticed that all the pipes and tubes were linked down the one corridor and that each corridor had its own system of pipes and tubes which supplied the gas. Nanashi smirked as an idea formed. "This is going to be fun!"

Nanashi turned off one of the lamps at the end of the hall then pulled out its gas tube. "I hope this works." She prayed as she flicked open the lighter and placed the open flame near the tube. "Shit!" she cursed as she burnt her fingers slightly dropping the lighter and gas tube as she did so, the pyromaniac noticed the flames travel through the pipes filling the corridor with flames.

"Pretty!" She mused before turning her back as the flames came to a large gas tank and exploded. "Now that was unexpected." Nanashi heard the screams and shouts of near by soldiers who had heard/felt/seen the explosion. "I better get out of here." Nanashi thought strolling away from the scene.

Back with Kari.

I sat reading a book I had found on Folken's desk when I felt a shudder go through the Vione, a few seconds later people began shouting about an explosion and fire down one of the halls.

I closed my book and sighed. "Damn that girl." I thought putting the book back and walking off to find my friend. "I knew this would happen." I thought as the halls began to fill with black smoke and soldiers carried on running around with water, all the lights were off so I guessed they had turned off all the gas on the Vione. "I see they have some people with brains on this ship." I happened to say out loud.

"I thought I told you not to leave the room." The cool voice of Folken said behind me. I turned around to see him with the same 'I'm pissed off but I'm not going to show it' face I had seen earlier.

"Yeah well I thought I would go look for Nanashi considering this is most likely her doing." I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. Folken smiled slightly before turning away back towards his room.

"And here I thought Dilandau was a handful." He said intending me to hear.

III

Later that day when they had managed to control the fire I found Nanashi hiding in our room, she insisted she had never left and knew nothing about the explosion but I noticed the burn marks on her fingers.

"Folken still wants to see you. You know your not getting out of it that easy." Nanashi sighed as I bandaged her fingers.

"Yeah whatever." She sighed then looked at me devilishly. "So you were alone with him?" She asked changing her tone. "I bet that was fun, too bad you're still not in your leathers I bet he loves that look." Nanashi soon shut up as I squeezed her burnt fingers.

"What were you saying?" I asked glaring at her.

"Nothing shutting up now." She moaned trying to release her fingers from my grip.

"Good girl." I let go of my friend for her to glare at me.

"I am so getting you back later." She hissed sitting further away from me.

III

Two days after the gas lamp incident.

"I am so bored!" Nanashi moaned as she sat in our small 'cell' like room. "Why won't they let us out?"

"Because you blew a hole in a section of the Vione and caused a lot of damage." Nanashi glared at me.

"Thanks for reminding me. I wish I would just get my punishment already, this is killing me being stuck in here." Nanashi flopped back onto her bed.

"Maybe this is your punishment?" I said, the Dragon slayers were allowed to see us when they brought food and water so had managed to steel me a book and Nanashi a pack of cards although after the first day she had gotten fed up with solitaire and creating card pyramids.

"In a way I hope you are right, so almighty bookworm what you reading?" She asked looking up to me.

"The formation of Zaibach, it's really boring all about Dornkirk and what he did to make Zaibach so great."

"Wow you must be bored." We both sighed. "Wanna help me get out of here?" She asked plainly.

"Okay." I shrugged.

The plan was set, when who ever it was came to bring us food, Nanashi and I would jump him. Nanashi would then steel his clothing and do what ever it was she wanted to do as I stayed in the room torturing the poor solider by how ever means I felt like. We would then see how long it took people to notice.

Nanashi and I were lucky for it to be just an ordinary solider, so he was easy enough to jump and tie up.

"Have fun." Nanashi said as she put on the soldiers helmet.

"Oh I will." I said grinning at the poor man sat in his boxers just coming around.

"Damn you're sadistic."

"And your not?" I asked raising my eyebrow, "I'm not going to kill the guy just mentally torture him." I smirked.

"Right then I'll leave you to it." Just before Nanashi left I reminded her to lock the door and not to blow anything up this time. "Spoil-sport." She huffed as she closed the door.

Hours passed and the solider I was mentally torturing had had enough.

"But I haven't finished." I said looking up at the poor man in tears. "This happens to be your great countries history, now where was I?" I looked at the book I was reading. "Damn I lost the page I better start from the beginning." The solider cried out as I began the book again. (A/N: Being bored to death is mental torture, trust me…and besides what did you think I was going to do?)

Nanashi on the other hand had managed to locate the training rooms within the Vione and had kicked the arses of several soldiers….lucky for her they were training in full armour.

When she had gotten bored of wining the fights she somehow found her way to the Guymelef hold, the Escaflowne had been moved to a more secure hold so Nanashi had no other choice but to 'play' with Dilandau's Melef the Alseides.

"So how do you work this thing?" She pondered as she sat in the large, red Melef. "I know this thing can fly…" Nanashi sat back further into the seat to have it close on her and Liquid metal fill the pilot chamber. "Okay. Right I think I have to pull on this?" Nanashi grabbed the hand controls and twisted it only to have the arm of the Alseides raise and fire it's liquid metal claws into the side of the Vione (Note: she's still inside). "Bugger that wasn't right." Nanashi attempted to withdraw the claws but ripped out half the wall instead. "That can't be good."

By this time people on the Vione had figured something was going on and were making their way towards the hold.

"Okay I'm sure it's this one." Nanashi pulled on some more controls but found out that they controlled the Alseides flamethrower and not its flight mode. "Okay I'm sure it's not that one." Nanashi looked around at the destruction she had caused to the Guymelef hold, the wall was missing and looked very unstable; it happened to be an outside wall too, the hold was also now on fire which didn't help the status of the other Guymelef's still sat and strapped in place.

Soldiers ran into the hold and attempted to put out the fires and keep and figure out what had happened some were talking about being attacked whilst others thought it was another bomb.

"YO Ashi-Chan!" Nanashi heard the all too familiar voice of her friend amongst the commotion. "I know you're in the Alseides." I yelled. Nanashi sighed knowing she wouldn't be able to hide; she slowly opened the cock-pit and showed herself.

"Folken's going to kill me isn't he?" She asked sheepishly.

A/N: MWAHAHAHAHA …. Damn they must hate us .