Author's Notes: I am really very sorry about taking so long! I know I could go on forever saying so… but I've been busy (when am I not?) and lack of inspiration… and – oh, don't bother listening to my excuses. I'll try real hard not to take this long ever again… thx ~~SK Marie
Disclaimer: Escaflowne isn't mine, no one in here is except for SkullyCat Marie
Vione Easter Eggs: Chapter 3
All's fair in Paint and War
The door burst open dramatically and everyone paused, more out of respect than surprise. It seemed everyone wanted a big entrance. In the doorway stood two girls, of different heights and appearance. The taller girl was nearly the same height as Dilandau. She had long blood red hair pulled up into a ponytail. She was wearing (to T'Chebbi's distress) a playboy bunny outfit. The girl beside her was about five three. She had longish blonde hair and dark blue eyes, wore a tight black square neck shirt and red velvet leopard patterned skirt as well as inch high black sandals.
T'Chebbi crept out from behind the door that had slammed into her and looked at the two girls. They smiled and looked around, at that moment Chesta, the short blonde slayer, burst from the crowd grinning happily.
"Sakuli! Shakaku! You came to the party!" her grabbed them both into a fierce hug.
"Of course we came!" Sakuli laughed.
"Like you could keep us out!" Shakaku added. She squirmed free of him and handed him a chocolate bunny.
"Thanks Shakaku!" he smiled and was obviously overjoyed to see them.
"More girls? How many people are coming Chesta?" the speaker was taller than all of them. He had long straight brown hair and intense green eyes, there were three green lines on his cheek. He was another of Dilandau's slayers.
"I don't think I've seen him before…" Shakaku said looking at him. Sakuli elbowed Chesta and said,
"Introduce us!" the blonde slayer laughed and replied,
"This is Mercutio Urai. He wasn't here last time because he was sick, Mercutio this is Shakaku and Sakuli."
"Well hello." He smiled slyly. "Nice outfit." He said to Sakuli's playboy bunny suit. She blushed feeling somewhat defensive.
"Well hey, it's an Easter party!" her eyes danced dangerously. Mercutio's own eyes reflected her's. The two of them looked at each other. Chesta lead Shakaku away.
"What do you make of that?" He asked when they were safely by the refreshment table.
"I think…" she giggled. "They're flirting!"
"Really?" Chesta nearly spilled his drink. "I didn't know that flirting looked like you were going to kill each other…"
"Didn't you see how they looked at each other? And hear what he said to her! And you saw her blush right?"
"Well yeah… but…" Chesta looked back at them talking up a storm, they looked like they were trying to out wit each other.
"Come on Chesta lets dance!" Shakaku dragged him out on the dance floor.
Draven came storming into the room with Syaoran in tow. She was dragging someone else along too. A few people looked up Dilandau included. Draven stopped depositing the person in front of her.
"Look who I found… I dunno how he got here…" she looked thoughtful. "Syaoran and I were *Ahem* Talking, when we saw a white light and then moments later found him wandering around, I spelled him and dragged him back here. After all it only seemed like the logical thing to-" she was cut off by Dilandau.
"VAAAAAAAANNN!!" he pounced forward. "It is! Gods bless I've found the rotten little crow that keeps flying away! I've got you know Van!"
Petal was looking very much confused because moments before he's been talking to her. Lina and SkullyCat saw the problem in seconds and dashed off to intercept the Dragon Slayer. Tikula followed them after another pause.
"Dilandau! Stop lord Dilandau!" they reached him each grabbing an arm. But he was much stronger and threw them off.
"I'll kill him!" he screamed lounging forward again. Van, now slightly un-dazed sat up. He looked at Dilandau and tried to scurry backwards. Dilandau drew his sword leaping at the defenseless boy.
"No stop!" the shouts came from the doorway. A tall girl with short chestnut brown and gold streaked hair ran towards them. Her dark green eyes glimmered with tears. She fell to the floor in front of Van, spreading her arm's protectively. She wore baggy light blue trousers and white, thin strapped tank top with white Nike trainers. The girl glared at Dilandau through her bangs then turned and pulled Van close to her. "What have they done to you? My poor baby…"
Dilandau, Skully and Lina looked bewildered. Draven smiled at their odd looks.
"Never a dull moment…" T'Chebbi muttered. Dilandau stepped forward.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Koneko Kamiya. And if you lay another finger on my angel I'll- I'll…" her voice trailed off and she glared at Dilandau.
"Well then, if you won't move I'll have to kill you to get to him…" he laughed, his eyes glinting with insanity.
"My Lord no!" Skully wrapped her arms around his leg Lina did the same.
"Don't do it!"
"Let go of me! Now! I demand it!" Dilandau snarled with rage and yelled to the Slayers, two of them came up and pried the girls off him. He promptly smacked Skully across the face. "How dare you disobey a direct order from your superior!"
Then he turned to Lina and raised his hand she flinched but he didn't strike her.
"And you should know better!"
"SkullyCat?" the tentative voice was Aiko's she pushed her way through the crowd, Folken following behind her. "What's going on – oh! Are you hurt?" she walked over to Skully and Lina.
"Dilandau what's the meaning-" The Zaibach stratigos stopped and his eyes rested on Van. "Van… Dilandau you know he's my brother…. I thought we discussed this… you said you wouldn't touch Van if he were unarmed…"
"Then arm him." the warlord snapped.
"Van is my brother!" Folken raised his voice and Aiko stood up and walked over to him talking his hand soothingly. Folken and Dilandau held each other's gazes for a moment longer then Dilandau turned and strode off through the crowd.
"Van are you… alright?" the king of Fanalia blinked a couple times then he stood up. He looked at Koneko then his brother.
"I'm fine now. How did I get here?"
"That would be my fault…" they turned to see Skully gingerly touching her red cheek. "I brought you here for the Easter party because Koneko wanted to meet you."
"How…?" Folken looked at her. Aiko smiled and leaned her head against him and said,
"SkullyCat is the author she can do that kinda stuff."
"Yeah so anyway, I'd advise you stay away from the Lord right now, he's… er a bit temperamental at the moment."
"Temperamental!! I'll kick his ass! He slapped you and you're still on his side! What's wrong with you girl!" Draven was fuming mad, even Syaoran was giving her some distance.
"Well… it's just that… he's um…" Skully blushed deep crimson and giggled.
"Oh gods be!" T'chebbi sighed and slunk back over to Makoto, Draven even gave up on her and went off to 'talk' with Syaoran.
"Oh Van I'm so glad you're alright!" Koneko was saying. She hugged him fiercely and he smiled one of his rare Van smiles. She looked up at him and slowly their lips met. A few of the people around them whistled and cheered. They too of them parted and blushed looking embarrassed.
SkullyCat and Lina were back at their table organizing eggs (what fun) and Tikula was hanging around hoping for a glimpse of Migel. At the moment Aiko had come over and was pouring dye into glasses when a tall girl with brown hair cut in much the same fashion as Dalet walked past TC and Makoto to the table with the girls. She had very dark brown eyes and was wearing a Dragon slayer outfit that had been modified into a more female form with fins on the arms and calves and dragon wings.
"Hello, I'm Yelsek, I'm looking for Gatti. Is he around?" Skully was looking thoughtful when Aiko and Lina started to argue over the dyes.
"Well I think I saw Gatti-" Skully was interrupted because she was shot in the face with a squirt of blue dye. Aiko and Lina froze. They were both holding onto a small tube of blue liquid.
"Oops." Aiko muttered.
"Yes… Oops indeed…" Skully looked furious. But then before they could apologize the cat girl grabbed a tube of red dye and sprayed it over the two of them. Lina smacked the green dye and it squirted in Skully's direction but she jumped aside and it hit Tikula. The girl squeaked with surprise before she snatched a dish of pink dye and threw it at Aiko who pulled Yelsek in front of her. Pretty soon the table and the five girls were covered in all sorts of colours, so was the table.
"Hey girls what's up?" it was Migel and Gatti. Sabby was walking with them too.
"Woah… you guys are, um, busy I can see…" Sabby said trying not to laugh. The five girls stopped and looked at the others. Then after a few glances grinned evilly.
"N-no… you guys come on!" Migel put up his hands in defense.
"Heh, heh, heh…" Lina walked over and carefully dumped an entire dish of red dye on Migel's head. The slayer shivered then sighed.
"That does it. This means war!" and he dove grabbing a handful of tubes and spraying the girls. They squealed and ran for cover. Sabby was laughing at him when Gatti came over and got yellow dye all down her nightshirt.
"Eeek! That's cold!" she grabbed for some dye and found an unopened paint bottle that she quickly opened and smeared across his uniform and face then grinned triumphantly. He reached out to grab her but she ran away. Yelsek walked over and Gatti froze recognizing his child hood friend.
"Yelsek…"
"Gatti…" they embraced and he hugged her tightly. Before he let her go the new girl smiled and affectionately smeared paint all through his hair. She smiled winningly and walked away.
"Not so fast traitor!" and he tackled her.
"Migel look out!" it was Dalet and… a lot more of the slayers. They bombarded the girls with attacks and the girls hid on the other side of the table.
"What's going on? Late JC! I can't believe you did this – without me!" Draven stalked over then froze when something wet and cold hit her in the back she spun around and the rest of the guys pelted her with paint and dye.
"Uh oh…" said T'Chebbi who was now on the girls side. SkullyCat looked at her knowingly. Draven's eye's looked like fiery pits of hell. She raised one hand – all the dye and paint lifted off the table. She lowered it – the dye and paint sprayed all over them. Quickly Draven leapt behind the table and laughed with the rest of the girls. It was out right war! Paint and dye was thrown and sprayed back and froth. There was only a slight pause when Dilandau joined then it continued and pretty soon everyone was there covered in all sorts of colours, so was the room for that matter.
Two girls walked into the main room together they saw first that the room was empty and they questioned whether or not they were in the right room. That was until they saw a brightly coloured room, which turned out to be the room the colour fight was going on in.
The first girl had dark brown hair and purple eyes. She wore tight jeans and a black tankini top. At her side was strapped a sword. The other girl had long dark auburn hair a couple shades darker than Skully's, she had grey eyes and was wearing comfortable clothing.
"Is this the Dragon Slayer Easter party?" the first girl asked the second.
"I dunno, I thought so… my name's Ellone. What's yours?"
"I'm Shimegami." The two of them walked over to the colourful room and peered in.
"Yikes! What a mess!" Ellone said, but she was smiling.
"Yeah! Looks like fun!"
"Shimegami!! You came!" Sabby jumped up and ran over. The guy's team was slaughtering the girls, they had too little people.
"Sabby!" the girl with dark hair smiled at her friend. Her friend, covered in paint, hugged Shimegami. "Ew… Sabby…"
"Hehe! Come on help us win! You too!" Sabby grabbed Ellone and dragged them both into the midst of it.
The girls and the guys went at it, neither team in the definite lead. Draven made sure that ammunition was always readily available. Even the cat sisters, Jajuka and Folken were fighting away.
… So much for painting the Easter eggs like normal people…
**If you're not in this chapter you're probably in the next! Okay? I do about five people per chapter and I have like over twenty people!!! So please just be pacient!**
***To be in this check out the first chapter at the bottom of the page! Thanks!***
PS: Thanks Lina for the paint idea! ^_~
