Chapter Three:
Getting Settled In
"Well, I think this is the place."
Folken shot a Look at Dilaudau. "Now where have I heard THAT before?"
[Bzz.] Van stuck the key-card into the slot of their room. "Well, Folkie, I think it was at the corner of West and Main, at the bakery where---"
"I was being SARCASTIC!"
"Where we got our jobs." Van finished. "What did we get jobs for in the first place, anyway?" Everyone looked at Dilly, who whistled innocently. When
he noticed everybody staring at him, he stopped. "What?" he asked innocently.
The group sweatdropped. The women shook their heads and went into their rooms.
Millerna dropped her bag on the first bed with a WHUMP! "Well, I claim this bed for me!"
Merle, who was picking the lock to the snack cabinet, looked up with vague interest. "Really? Why?"
"Cuz' it's better."
"But they're exactly the same."
"Huh?!" Millerna looked over in horror to discover the truth to Merle's words. Sure enough, the three beds in the rom were completely identical. "Well,..."
Millerna stuttered, "m...mine's..." she looked around, "closest to..the door! Yeah, that's it! Mine's the closest to the outside."
"Maybe," Hitomi countered," but that means it's also closer to the men."
All three ladies began to glow red at the thought of their crushes right next door. Three seconds later, all Hell broke loose as they fought and squabbled
over who was to claim the sleeping equipment closest to the guys.
Screen pans to show me sitting in the director's chair. "Speaking of guys," I say, "I wonder what they're up to..." I pull out a hidden camera monitering
their bedroom.
"Alright, men," Folken dictated, "in order to survive the madness at this...'Disney World', we are going to have to act in an orderly fashion."
"YAY! Clothes!"
"Shut UP, Dilandau." Folken growled. "Anyway...I have been informed that there are only three beds in our room, so---"
Folken was cut off by the other three guys plowing him down in order to avoid sleeping on the floor. Even with his face buried in the concrete, he could
still make out the following conversation going on between his three roommates (if this can even classify as a conversation)...
"Cool, a snack bar!"
"I get dibs on this bed!"
"Not if I get there first!"
"Oh, no you don't!"
"Fine, you take that bed. I've got this one."
"HEY!!"
Folken groaned from his position on the sidewalk. "Why...BONK...me...BONK...why...BONK...me...BONK..."
Dilly bent over Folken and smiled. "Now where have I heard THAT before?" he asked cutely.
Folken growled a response. Van picked him up off the ground. "Cheer up, Folkie ol' pal. We're at DISNEY WORLD!! Relax, enjoy your stay. Have
a little fun. That's what we're here for, right?" He slapped Folken on the shoulders, which sent him sprawling on the ground again.
Allen examined the lump in front of him. "Maybe we should drag him."
Hitomi and Merle leaned on the railing overlooking the pool while they waited for Millerna to retrieve the men. "Maybe they don't want to go swimming.
Then what do we do?"
Merle brushed a fleck of dust off of her yellow swimsuit. "We shove 'em in the pool."
Ding-dong Millerna tapped her foot impatiently. "What's taking them so long?!" Ding-dong "They aren't THIS slow...are they?" ding-dong
"C'mon, ALLEN!!" ding-dong-ding-dong-ding-dong---- "AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Millerna grew *steamed* again and exhaled
flames upon the door, burning it beyond oblivion.
Merle laughed at the sight. "Maybe she and Dilly should hook up."
"Huh?!" Hitomi blushed madly. "No, they shouldn't," she said quickly. "I mean, thay don't really make a good couple. She's MUCH better off with Allen."
Merle shot Hitomi a funny look. [Is it my imagination, or did she sound jealous when I said that?] Merle dismissed the thought. [Ah, I'll think about it
later. Right now, I've gotta look for the guys.]
Millerna stepped through the burnt entrance and examined the room. "They're not here," she observed.
Hitomi followed Merle in. "But where could they have gone?"
Millerna was at a loss for words. "I...I don't know. Usually I have Allen to answer all my questions..."
Hitomi smirked. "HA! So, you finally admit that you're stupid."
"Wha---?" Millerna turned red. " NO! Of course not! I never said anything like that. I just said that when I had a question, Allen would answer it for me."
"Yeah, sure."
"I did!"
"That's not how I heard it."
"You wanna make something of it?"
"Bring it on, bitch!"
"Oh, now you're REALLY asking for it!" Millerna tackled Hitomi onto the floor.
Merle sweatdropped as she watched the two *fight* with each other. Millerna's face started to glow red again. Before Merle could run for cover her
stomach began to growl. "Hey guys....guys? HEY, YOU TWO!!!!!"
Hitomi and Millerna looked up. Hitomi had Millerna in a headlock and Millerna was pulling on Hitomi's hair. Merle slapped her forehead. "Listen. I
think I know where the guys are."
The girls were silent. Merle continued. "After spending all morning in a bakery, and then dealing with that processed substitution product they call
'airplane food', I bet they were hungry."
"THE FOOD COURT!!!" Hitomi and Millerna exclaimed. Merle nodded, and the three girls happily skipped down the stairs to wait for the bus.
chomp, gobble, scarf, munchmunchmunch, SLURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP
burp
buuuuurp
buurrrpppppp
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
"Damn, Dilly. You beat us again."
"Just goes to show ya', never mess with the master!"
Van, Folken, Allen, and Dilandau were sitting in a corner booth at the food court, and Dilly had once again managed to protect his title of "Burpmiester."
Folken had competed, but failed miserably, as you may be able to see.
Allen smiled. "Ah, well, King of Bad Breath or not, I think that was a satisfying meal. You?"
Everyone clamored in agreement. Then the waitress came back out. "You boys care for any dessert?"
"MEMEMEMEMEMEME!!!!" Dilly's eager voice echoed throughout the seating area, which had quickly emptied shortly after their arrival. "I wanna
triple-hot-fudge-sundae over a brownie with lotsa, LOTSA whipped cream and sprinkles, the chocolate kind, and chocolate chips, and a cherry, and
if it's not too much trouble, I'd like TWO cherries on my sundae instead of one." Dilly folded his arms and smiled.
The waitress nodded. "And what about you guys?"
Van, Folken and Allen sat in silence for a moment. At last, all three looked up and said at the same time, "I'll have what he's having."
The waitress shrugged. "Simple enough." She walked away.
At that moment, Merle, Millerna, and Hitomi walked into the food court. "Het, LOOK! The girls are here," Dilly said. He waved to them like an idiot.
"Oh, FIIIIIIIIIREBUUUUUUUUDDDDDDYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!"
Allen tackled him. "SHH!!! Don't let Millerna know that I'm here."
Luckily for Allen, the girls didn't hear Dilandau calling. Instead they stopped for pizza.
"I don't chew know where gulp the guys are, but they're certainly chomp not here..." Hitomi commented.
"Hmph. Good." Millerna declared as she sat down. "The last thing I need is that stupid Dilandau ruining our meal."
Hitomi choked at Millerna's words.. "koff koff He's not gag stupid..." she reached for her drink.
Millerna glanced at Hitomi curiously. "Really? Then what is he?"
"He's...well he's..." Hitomi got that dreamy look in her eye. "He's funny, at least I think so, he's very thoughtful...of me anyway, and he's very talented."
Hitomi smiled at the memory of the carnival where Dilly introduced to the world his own method of making cotton candy.
An explosion interrupted Hitomi's thoughts. "And," Merle said, pointing to the smoke, "he's probably over there."
Sure enough, Dilly was on a rampage. Merle walked up to Folken. "Folkie, what the hell happened here?!"
Folken sighed. "Well..."
[Flashback mode.]
The waitress came to the table with the sundaes on her tray. Dilly clapped his hands. "Yay! Ice cream!" He dug into his, not realizing that is was...
"AHHHH!! IT'S COOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Folken glared ay him. "No DUH. That's why it's called 'ice' cream, not 'spark' cream."
"Oh." Dilly stared at his ice cream for a while and noticed to was starting to melt. A lightbulb appeared over his head. "OOOOOOOO! Idea!!"
The other three guys exchanged glances, not knowing what he was talking about. "It's melting," he explained, noticing their confused looks. "So, I'm
gonna help it. "
Van, Allen, and Folken ducked under the table as soon as the flamethrower appeared. Carefully, Dilly turned it on and let it engulf the treat, melting
it at a slow but steady pace.
However, Dilly didn't notice the flamethrower fuel leaking from the other side. Drip...drip...drip... So when he set the flamethrower down, the heat from
the valve ignited the oil.
But it doesn't end there.
The fire managed to slowly creep it's way to the kitchen, where it got aquianited with a gas stove, and., well...
Let's just say that there were some rather 'explosive' results.
[End flashback.]
"...and that's where we are now." Folken finished.
Merle rolled her eyes. "Great."
Hitomi glanced around worriedly for Dilly, hoping that he hadn't gotten hurt. "Oh, D---"
"Lookie! It's my Firebuddy!!" Dilly swung down from the ceiling beam and grabbed Hitomi by the waist. Together they sailed through the air, carefree.
Hitomi would've ate up this moment had she not been scared half to death.
At last, they landed on the other side of the seating area. "Here, Hitomi," Dilly said, handing her a flamethrower."It's about time I showed you what real
fun is all about!!"
Hitomi felt really light. (He never called me 'Hitomi' before...) "Okay..." she said slowly, pointing the flamethrower at a table and shooting. A weak spurt
of fire came out.
Dilly shook his head. "No, do it more like this." He wrapped his arms around her and put his hand on hers, so that they both held the trigger. Hitomi
went weak in the knees, but managed to stay standing. "Okay, now...FIRE!!!" He put some pressure on her hand, and a jet came out of the valve.
"Okay, now you try."
Hitomi straightened, positioned herself near her target, and aimed. "FIRE!!" she cried, successfully toasting the stool.
"That's it!" Dilly encouraged. "Now the laugh." He took a deep breath. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hitomi tried to copy. "Uh...Bwahahahaha...ha...heh."
Dilly sweatdropped. "Now worry, we'll work on the laugh later. Right now..." he waved his hand to display a whole section that hadn't been fried. "We
need to focus on what's REALLY important: bringing the whole place down! Adieu!" Dilly ran off to do his thing.
Van slapped his forehead at the sight of Hitomi hopping around like an idiotic pyro scorching everything in sight. "Oh, my God. I can't believe that Dilly
is giving pyro lessons...to HITOMI, no less. Oy..."
(Left...right...slide UNDER the table, fry, and...) "YES!!" Hitomi jumped up in triumph. "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Dilly cheered her on. "Yeah! That's it!"
Hitomi examined her surroundings with pride. (I did it,) she thought. (I actually did it...) She looked at Dilly happily. (I just know that Dilandau will be so
proud of me...)
Merle interrupted Hitomi's thoughts. "Hey, Hitomi! I didn't know you could make rump roast!!"
"Huh?!" Hitomi twisted around to discover, in sheer horror, that she had set her butt on fire. Yelping in fear, she jumped about thirty feet into the air,
with one thought on her mind that she decided to share with the world.
"YEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!"
Luckily, she landed in the pool. splash Everyone ran over to see if she was alright. Dilly stuck his hand out. "Sorry. I forgot that not everyone is
unflamable like me. Are you okay?"
Hitomi nodded. "It's alright. And, yes, I'm...fine..." She reached up for his hand. Dilly didn't expect her to grab so hard and went tumbling into the pool
and instantly turned into mush.
"No!!! I'm MELTi n g... again..."
"Ah...oo...uh....oh!" Hitomi looked around and got an idea. She took the leaky flamethrower and let some oil drip onto the Dilly Puddle. Then she set
him on fire. he instantly morphed back into his normal form and jumped out of the pool before the wettness could get him again.
Hitomi knelt next to him. "Oh, God, I'm terribly sorry!!"
Dilly looked up, panting but smiling. "It's okay. At least I know that you'll always be there to help me should it happen."
Hitomi's heart soared. "You...you r-really mean...that?"
"Of course, Firebuddy..."
Hitomi gazed at him deeply, and before she could stop herself, she felt her face moving closer to his...
To his face...
To his lips...
And then...
"Uh, guys?" Van interrupted. "I hate to break up such a lovely 'you saved me' moment, but it's getting really dark, and we should head back to our
rooms, don't you think?"
Everyone agreed and started walking. (Darn!) Hitomi thought as she was walking. (I was so close...maybe it wasn't the right time, but...son. Yes, soon.)
Dilandau kept glancing at Hitomi during the walk to the hotel. (Did she really try to...kiss me? Or maybe I was just imagining it...yeah, that's gotta be
it. I must have remembered to take my anti-crazy pill this morning...I really should stop doing that.)
Outside the rooms, the group said their good-nights and went to their appropriate rooms.
In the guys' room, Dilandau sighed happily as he adjusted himself on his bed. "Ya' know, guys?" he siad to the others. "I think that went pretty well."
He was immediately pelted with pillows.
(Hiya! Me again. So...did I do okay for this chapter? I hope so. This Dilly/Hitomi thing is harder to write that I thought it would be. But I said I'd try it. and
so far I think it's turning out okay. While I'm on the topic of romance, I've been thinking on turning Merle and Folken into an item. Whaddya think of that?
If you don't think I should do it, I won't. But I've been toying with the idea for a while, and I'd like some feedback on it. Well, I guess that's about it for now.
Coming soon...Escaflowne visits the Magic Kingdom in Chapter Four: Esca Magic! Bye, People!! - Ztarlight
