(Hiya!! Yeah, I know that I'm posting this kind of late, but... here's the special holiday date with Hitomi and Dilly! And as far as this chapter goes, I'm
not really sure if there are wild turkeys running around in Disney. However, they have wild ducks, geese, pelicans, and flamingos, so why not turkeys?)



Escaflowne at Disney World
Chapter Six: A Date With Dilly


Dilly examined himself in the mirror. "Let's see... 'Hey Hitomi, howz it going?' No... "Hitomi, my loverly blonde flower.' Grr, no!" He shook his head
frantically.

Folken glanced up at Dilly curiously. "What *are* you trying to do, Dilandau..."

Dilly tested out a few smiles. "Well, I'm going out on a date with Hitomi, and I want to make a lasting impression."

Allen felt his heart sink. "Hitomi?!"

Van pumped his fist into the air. "WooHOO! You go, Dilly!!" He tossed Dilly a bottle of cologne. "Here! This'll help ya'."

"Thanks." Dilly spurted some on. "Oooo! Smells good... what is it?" He read the label. " 'Old Spice'... odd, seems fresh to me..."

"So..." Folken sauntered up to Dilly, "How'd you do it?"

"Do what?"

"Get Hitomi to be your date."

"I dunno... I guess it was my 'spark'ling personality."

The guys laughed, except for Allen, who sulked in the corner.

Dilly's chuckles died down and he went to check on Allen. "C'mon, Allen, why the long face?"

Allen sighed. "You'e so lucky. I never get the good women."

Dilly thought. "Well, what about Miller---"

"NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONOOOOOOO!!!!!"

"Whatever." Dilly headed for the door. "Well, I'd better get going..."

Everyone stood to watch Dilly, who just stood there with his hand on the doorknob. "Well...?" Van finally asked.

Dilly motioned for Folken to come over. He leaned down by Dilly's ear. "What is it?"

"Folken, what do you do on a date?"



"Hmm hmm hmm hm hm..."

Merle stared at Hitomi. "What's *she* so happy about?" she asked Millerna.

Millerna shrugged and reached for a bottle of nail polish. "I don't know, and I don't care."

Hitomi smoothed out a wrinkle in her skirt. "I think that's it..."

"What's it?" Merle wanted to know.

"My date."

Millerna coughed. "A... date?" she sputtered weakly.

Hitomi nodded. "Yup. Dilly asked me out."

Millerna sighed deeply. "Oh... alright." (Wait...) she thought, (If Hitomi is going out with Dilly, then that leaves Allen all for me!!) Squealing, Millerna ran
outside and headed for the guys' hotel room.

Merle pricked up and ear and listened. She could hear rapid footsteps, a door being knocked down, and Allen screaming.

Hitomi giggled nervously. "Well, Merle, then I guess I'll have to ask you...



Dilly looked around. He had managed to find a nice table by the poolside bar. Calmly he waited for Hitomi, but he could never shake the feeling that
something had happened.

(What if she changed her mind? What if she got sick? Or worse...) Dilly swallowed, (Maybe she got attacked by radio-active mutant squirrels!)

"Hi. Is this seat taken?"

Dilly glanced up. "Yes, It's for--- Hitomi!!" he jumped over the table and hugged her. "I thought you got eaten by mutant bunnies."

"You mean squirrels."

"Right. Hey, how did you know that?"

Hitomi picked up a brown-haired girl holding a pen and some paper. "She told me."

Dilly gave the girl a weird look. "And just who are you?

The girl giggled. "I'm Ztarlight,.the person who controls all your thoughts, commands all your misfortunes, and makes you do... stuff."

Dilly threw her in the pool. [Author bashing! YAAAAYYY!!]

"ANYway..." Dilly put his attention back to his date. "Are you hungry?"

Hitomi smiled. "A bit."

"Great." He handed her a menu. "You find something you like, and..." Dilly trailed off as he watch a wild turkey run past. "Hitomi, do you like turkey?"

"Well, yeah. Why---"

"Great." He oulled his flamethrower out. "We're going to have a fresh meal." He took off.

"Dilly wait! You don't have to... do this..." Hitomi sighed.

More turkeys ran by.

"What the?!"

"HERE, TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY!!"

"Huh?" Hitomi snapped her head up. "Oh, no... Dilly!!"

"Hitomi, here!" He tossed her his spare flamthrower. "Time to go hunting!!"

"But... don't you usually go hunting with a rifle?"

"No." He started to run again. "C'mon, it's a blast!!"

Hitomi shrugged. "Oh, what the hell." She charged her weapon. "It's TURKEY TIME!!"

They ran around for a while, burning turkeys and anything else that dared to interfere with them. Among those who dared was the bartender, a bratty
four-year-old kid, the annoying little authoress who was thrown in the pool, and a tree.

At long last, Dilly caught a turkey. "Hitomi, I got one!!" It was charred beyond belief, but still a turkey. "It's a little overdone, but it's good that way.

Hitomi nodded. "I'm sure..."

Dilly hacked the bird with an ax and sliced it neatly into pieces that landed on their plates. "There ya' go!"

Hitomi speared her portion and took a bite. "Hey, this is pretty good, Dilandau."

Dilly beamed. "Thanks, but all that running made me thirsty." He held a hand in the air. "Can I get two colas for table 5?"

A moment later, a short waitress rought them thier drinks. "Thanks," Dilly said. "Say, you look kinda familier..."

The wairtess pulled out a pen and some wet paper. "You know DIlly, even though I write the fics, there are still something about you I don't understand.
Like, how do----"

"Go AWAY!!!" he screamed and tossed her into the pool again.

"No!" Ztarlight cried, thrashing in the water. "This suit is dry-clean only!!"

Dilly rolled his eyes and sipped his drink. "Well, that nut did one thing right. She spiked my drink witrh lighter fluid."

Hitomi spit out what she had in her mouth. "Eww... lighter fluid? You actually drink that?"

Dilly laughed. "Well, yeah. I have to stay flame-retardant SOMEhow..." He saw the disgusted look on Hitomi's face. "Relax, there's shouldn't be any in yours."

"Oh... okay..."

[They had a dinner conversation. I don't feel like describing it, but if you really must know, they we're discussing the wonders of instant potatoes.]

"Well," Hitomi started, "That was rather nice."

Dilly smiled. "I'm glad you liked it."

"Let's get some dessert."

More turkeys ran by.

Hitomi groaned. "By that I meant some chocolate."

Dilly growled. "WHERE are they coming from?!"

A whole slew of turkeys are comng now, with a crazed teenager running with them.

Dilly grabbed the psycho-teen as she ran by. "A-HA! You're the one behind this!!"

Ztarlight squirmed in his grip. "No! Not me!! The bunnies made me do it!! IT WAS THE BUNNIES!!!!" She ran away, screaming about the swarm of ninja
bunnies. [Note: this is me when I don't get my daily coffee.]

At that moment, a swarm of radio-active mutant squirrels came running through the area. Dilly grabbed a chair and started bashing each one. "No!! Stay
away from my fire buddy!! You can't have her! She's miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!!!" -BASHBASHBASH-

Hitomi sighed. "Dilly, let's get out of here, okay?" She grabbed his arm and led him away.


They walked around the edge of the pool. "You know..." Hitomi brought up, "That was really sweet... what you did for me back there."

"It was nothing, really..."

"Well, I think that it counts for something." She stopped to look at the water. "After all, not just anyone would try to save me from a swarm of radio-active
mutant bunnies."

"Squirrels."

"Whatever."

"Hitomi?"

"...yeah?"

"The pool looks pretty, doesn't it?"

"Yeah... too bad you can't go in it."

"I know... but I want to say it makes your eyes look nicer."

Hitomi smiled sweetly. "That's very nice of you, Dilandau." She threw her arms around him in a hug.

Dilly smiled. "You still want that dessert?"

"Sounds good."

He leaned over and kissed her. Hitomi gasped in shock. Slowly, she relaxed, and felt herself being pulled further and further into Dilandau's warm embrace.
It was such an exciting feeling, she had dreamed of this moment for so long, and now it was here. She could feel herself leaning into Dillandau...

Leaning...

Leaning...

Leaning...

And falling into the pool.

Hitomi sighed at her boyfriend-turned-mush and held up her flamethrower. "Got any of that spiked coke left?"



[You're all probably wondering what happened to Millerna and Allen. For the sake me wanting you to laugh your asses off, I will show you.]



Millerna bolted down the hallway and burst through the door. "Hiiii!!" she screamed.

Allen took one look at her and fled. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She ignored him. "Where's Dilly? I want to wish him good luck with his new girl!"

"He already left," Folken said.

"Besides," Van asked, "Why do care about Dilly and Hitomi?"

Allen started bawling.

"You're not much of a Hitomi fan, Millerna..." Van finished.

"So?" Millerna shrugged. "I just wanted to see how Allen was doing."

Folken pointed to the corner. "See for yourself."

Allen was hunched up in a ball against the wall, trying to plot revenge.

Millerna smiled. "Aww... poor widdle Awwen. I'm gonna take you out for a nice ice cream, okay?"

Allen paled. "With you?!"

Millerna twitched. "No, with my invisible friend Patty." she said sarcasticaly.

Allen perked up. "Okay, Patty, let's go!"

Millerna sighed. "We're going for ice cream!"

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

This goes on for a few hours. It ends only when two familier voices are heard...


Hitomi and Dilly stopped in front of the girls' room. "Well, this is where I get off."

Dilly pouted. "Aw, do you have to?"

Hitomi giggled. "C'mon, we're going to MGM studios tomorrow. You'll have fun there."

"You mean... *we'll* have fun there." Dilly pulled Hitomi close and kissed her again.


Folken and Van exchanged glances and smiled. (They're so cute together...)

Allen stared gaping at the scene. (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!) Then he passed out.

Millerna also gaped at them. (Damn, can he ever kiss!)

Merle was in the girls room at the time watching the catnip channel, so she never caught any of this.


They pulled away, and became aware that they were being watched. Slowly, they turned to see the other three staring at them.

{Blink}

{Blink}

Millerna laughed nervoulsy, made a comment on the time, and dragged Hitomi into the girl's room and shut the door.

Van did the same to Dilandau.

Though the two parties were in different rooms, at the same time the single cry went up:

"INTERROGATION!!!!!!"


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Well, I finally got this up. I know it's late, but for those who celebrate it, I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. I did. ^-^ Well, that's all for now, folks!
Tune in next time for chapter seven of "Escaflowne at Disney World" : "Lights, Camera... Dilly?!" Bai!