AN: Hey everyone, I'm back with the revised "Three Girls" fic! I've redone some of the stuff, fixed spelling and grammar errors and hopefully it is better then the first one! This is all part of a project that I'm working on called "Project G.P.S. (Gaea Protector's Series)" where I redo (fix spelling errors, grammar errors, add in details or needed paragraphs) the series and then post a new story about the Protectors. Yes, I'm not done with these girls yet!

So please review and tell me what you think! Thanks a lot!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Escaflowne characters nor the story. It belongs to Bandai Entertainment. The only things I own in this story are my characters!

Three Girls

This story is dedicated to the only person I know who has a heart of gold and a talent for the art of story telling. CrimsonFire my friend, you've been there for me when I've needed you and you're always willing to help me out no matter what situation I'm in. So this one is done for you!

Chapter 1: A New World

Laughter and talk all swirled around the large lunchroom as Katina Taylor, Alexandra Slym, and Nicole Rosemer were all sitting at their favorite table in Cross Winds High School. Kat, a 5"4' girl with waist long dark brown hair and blue eyes the color of a Spring sky, sat across from her two best friends, Nicole and Alex.

Nicole was a 5"2' girl with shoulder blade length blonde hair and brown eyes the color of an Oak tree's bark, and Alex, the 5"5' girl with shoulder length light brown hair and sharp green eyes. They were arguing about whether the cute jock a few tables over was currently checking Kat out. "He was so checking you out, girl!" Alex whispered.

"No, I think he was checking out Miss Hightail over there," Nicole whispered back, motioning to the popular cheerleader. She was nicknamed "Miss Hightail" behind her back because it was known throughout the school that not only did she always keep her blonde hair swept up in a high ponytail but she was also riding on a high horse.

"Come on, admit it! You think he was checking Kat out!"

Nicole blushed a little and didn't reply.

"I don't care what he was doing, I don't like him. He's cute, sure, but definitely not smarter then a bullfrog and I'm sure he wouldn't care about me even if we were going out," Kat said, ending the discussion. She had that effect when there was something trivial to argue about.

Nicole nodded. "Kat's right. Anyway, I don't really care either. All that I really care about right now is that sleepover tonight at Kat's house!"

"Yeah. I can't wait to try out that stupid spell and see if it works," Alex agreed.

Kat laughed. "Me neither. It sounded like fun, so I figure what the heck," she said.

Everyone nodded.

Kat suddenly happened to catch a glimpse of Nicole's watch. She realized that she was about to be late for her next class. "Shoot it, I'm going to be late. See you after school!" Kat said as she stood up and rushed out of the lunchroom.

Nicole and Alex, taking the queue from Kat, got up and started to slowly walk to their next class. "I really want to see what will happen. People say Wicca isn't worth your time and it's just a bunch of stupid thoughts," Nicole commented.

"Yeah. But Kat seems to want to try this, and she's never lead us wrong in the past," Alex agreed.

After school the trio walked to Baskin and Robbins 31. It was close to their school and it was a habit of theirs, especially since they knew the kid that was working there today. It was always good to drop off and see what they could get. As they took their ice cream and slid into a booth at the far end of the shop, they started talking.

"So I figure that we'll go home, talk for a while, play my bro's video games, eat some pizza, talk some more, maybe do homework and then play some more games and mess around until half an hour before midnight," Kat explained, not giving very much detail for the night's events.

"Sounds like a plan. I can't wait," Alex said.

"Hey, Kitty Kat," a voice said.

Kat looked up and saw the waiter, Eric, standing over her. "What'd I say about the name?" She asked, annoyed. Everyone seemed to like calling her that.

"Sorry, but I've got a couple extra quarts of ice cream that's left over from the last shipment. Boss says he wants it gone, whether it's given away or sold. You want it?" Eric asked.

"What kind?" Nicole asked, the look in her eyes telling them that she didn't really care but she'd still ask.

"Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, World-" he was cut off.

All three girls said, "yes" in unison.

He smiled and walked off.

"Man, I think this is our lucky day," Alex commented as she dug into her sundae. All the girls started laughing because it was a common fact that they were not that lucky.

"Change in plans girls. We have to add eating those quarts of ice cream into our night activities," Kat said.

After wasting most of the night away with talk, video games and food, Kat, Alex and Nicole slipped into Kat's room and closed the door half an hour to midnight. Upon entering Kat's room they found a double bed against the far wall, a nightstand next to it, a closet across from her bed, a couple bean bags littered around the room, and a desk next to the door. Everyone in the house was asleep so they had to make sure to be very quiet.

Nicole lit the candles and Alex made the 5-pointed star with chalk on the ground as Kat had instructed. It was a good thing that Kat had found chalk that could write on carpet and it also helped that her carpet was darkly colored. Kat placed the candles around the star and then they stepped into the middle of it.

Facing each other, they joined hands and closed their eyes. "By the power of the moon,

The power of the sun and stars,

We wish on our might that we be taken a far," they chanted together.

They continued to chant over and over again until the clock struck midnight. Suddenly each of the girls began to glow with a gentle light. Nicole glowed purple, Alex glowed green and Kat glowed blue. What they didn't know was that this glowing that they were doing would soon be a part of them. At the same time each of the girls felt a rush of warmth flow through their bodies. A little taken by surprise, their chanting was broken for a second but they quickly recovered and continued.

Suddenly they disappeared from Kat's room. It didn't happen in a huge bang or other sound affect, no flash of light, no sudden smoke filling the room, they just vanished, reappearing in an empty field. As they chanted, a golden beam of light that seemed to make the clouds come alive with an earthly light came shooting down from the heavens. It enveloped them in its light; small sparks drifting around them-moon dust. They were very gently taken from the Earth, as if carried by a hand trying not to crush them, and rushed to another planet, just behind the moon.

The night sky stared down on Dilandau Albatou, Captain of the new Dragon Slayers, and his troops as they waited in a field. A small, cool, breeze had picked up and blew his silver hair away from his face. If the two moons above him had chosen to light up the night as they usually did, then he would've been in the perfect lightly to seem almost gloriously heroic. However, he did not care. He only cared about the dull shinning of the moon.

Being out in the night for most of his life, he knew when something was astray. He glanced at the sky and caught the sight of a golden beam of light strike the earth a mile away from him and his troops. The light shone brightly, lighting up the whole field and everything that surrounded it, for just a few seconds and then disappeared.

Surprise rushed through his veins. What was that? The only bright light that ever came was when that girl from the Mystic Moon, Hitomi, had come. Could this be her again? Had she developed some sort of power over the light that had brought here her?

After 5 minutes of watching, Dilandau motioned his troops forward. It seemed as if their visitors had chosen not to show themselves, so that meant they would be the welcoming committee. They slowly made their way up to where the light had dropped its captives. Dilandau stopped a few feet away from the three bodies and saw that the captives were three girls, all wearing the weirdest clothes. They were even stranger then the last Mystic Moon's girl's clothes.

He stared at them, making sure that they were asleep. Though they looked like girls, he couldn't be sure. This could be some sort of trap. But after surveying them, he finally bent down next to one with long brown hair and checked her pulse. It was strong.

He gathered her up in his arms and turned to his men. "Take them," he said, and started walking back to his red and black guymelef.

Kat slowly opened her eyes, coming back into the conscious world. She didn't know where she was, only that she was on something soft. Her body ached as if she had just done the world's hardest gymnastic routine without being a gymnast. Oh jeez, what did I do? She wondered as she rolled onto her side and propped herself up with her elbow, blinking and looking around.

She was in a plain room, dark because there was only a small window high above her head with iron cast bars across it letting in the faintest of light. However, besides the lack of light, which her eyes were still getting used too, she found that she was on a bed-actually a small cot with hay for the mattress and a sheet over it-and a small nightstand that looked like it served as a stool also. Both were bolted to the ground.

It wasn't the way the furniture was bolted to the ground or how there was water slipping down the rock walls around her, algae and moss all ready part of the décor that caught her attention. It was the placement of a slick, metal door with bolts around it and not apparent doorknob that interested her. Kat slowly got to her feet, wincing every time her muscle did the slightest of movements, and hobbled over to the door.

She put her hand against it, feeling the cold metal beneath her fingers, and ran her hand along the outside of it. There was no knob, no hidden button, no keypad, no nothing. It was just a metal door.

Suddenly a small wave of panic hit her. Where was she? There were no doors like this on Earth, as least, not that she knew of. So, where was she? Where were Alex and Nicole? She wondered. She turned back to the room and looked at it, finding only the obvious, she was alone in it. She went back to her cot sat down on it, staring at the door.

She had no idea where she was, whom she was dealing with or where Alex and Nicole were or if they were hurt. Anger rushed through her, replacing the panic. She clenched her hands into fists and hit the bed. We should've never done that spell! Look where it got us! She thought angrily.

Alex came rushing back into the conscious world, confused. She opened her eyes and sat up. But she immediately wished she hadn't. Her whole body screamed at her to take it easy, which she ignored. She was in a small room, darkened by the lack of light. There was a small window high up with iron cast bars through it letting in the smallest amounts of lights. Moss and other types of algae climbed the rock walls and there were stagnant pools of water all around.

She found that her bed was really a pathetic type of cot bolted down to the floor. Her nightstand, probably not even that, but a pathetic stool was also bolted down. Aren't they the decorating type? She thought sarcastically. I wonder when I'll get my five-star meal.

Narrowing her eyes she scanned the room. The only other light source besides the window was a single candle burning next to a metal door. Since the candlelight played off the door, she found that it was covered in bolts and looked very heavy. Also it didn't have any sort of keypad or doorknob on it. But what made her real uneasy was that fact that Kat and Nicole weren't there.

She got up off her cot with much protest from her body and sort of hobbled over to a wall. She then began to run her hand around the walls of the room, looking for a way out. She found that there wasn't one. Not even on the door. That's when fear began to pick at her.

She was alone, without her friends or an escape, and she didn't know where she was. Stop it. Kat will get us out of this. She always does, she thought as she went back and sat down on the cot. I just have to wait for the next move.

Nicole opened her eyes, back into the world of the conscious. She forced herself to sit up and then stand, her body protesting that it was tired. She ignored the complaints rising from her still dormant muscles. She was a little glad that she was still skating; it kept her in good shape.

She looked around and found that she was in a room, darkened by the fact that there were no lights or even a window, where the only furniture was a small cot that was bolted down and a bolted down nightstand. She looked around some more, finding the rock walls covered in moss and pools of water gathering around her, but she didn't find Kat or Alex.

They weren't in the room with her. It looked as if she was the lone inhabitant. Fear began to rise up in her stomach. Where are they? Where am I? She wondered.

But looking around the room made her even more afraid. What if the spell went wrong? What if we're on some planet or something and Kat and Alex are dead? What if we we're separated? She thought. Her fear turned into dead set panic as it coursed through her. She gripped the bed hard, forcing herself to think that nothing bad happened to them. Oh, please let them be all right.

Kat was jerked from her thoughts when she heard a swooshing noise. She looked up to find that the door to her cell was open, and someone was standing in the doorway, silhouetted by the bright light behind it. A small growl leapt up in her throat as stood up, drawing herself to her full height and glaring at the figure. Someone who tried to make a flashy appearance would not intimidate her.

The figure stepped into her cell and the door slid closed behind him. She found that the figure was a boy, and after studying him for a few seconds, she concluded that he was only a year or two older then her. He had silver hair that sort of flipped out at the sides, garnet eyes that sparkled in the dim light, making them glow, and from what she could tell, a very nice build.

He wore a black uniform under a red chest plate, shoulder pads with huge spikes on top, gauntlets, and ankles that reached up to his shins, and a gold plate around his forehead that his bangs sort of hid. He narrowed his eyes at her.

"Who are you?" Kat demanded.

"I am Dilandau Albatou, Captain of the Zaibach Dragon Slayers and you are?" He replied evenly.

"Why in hell should I tell you my name?" Kat spit.

Feisty-very feisty. We'll have to deal with that, Dilandau thought. "Because you are my prisoner. If you wish to be let go, then you better tell me your name." There was irritation in his tone.

"Kat." She matched his tone with ice. She had to admit, the guy was right. If she wanted out, she better do as he said. However, it didn't mean she had to cooperate.

"Kat… Kat…" Dilandau played with the name on his tongue.

"Yeah, that's my name. Now where are my friends?"

Dilandau eyed her. "Come with me and you'll see them," he said. He turned and walked up to the door and paused.

Kat had a bad feeling about following him, but if she didn't, she might not get to see where her friends were. She sighed mentally-it was probably worth the risk. If she got into any trouble, she felt that she might be able to take him.

The door suddenly slid open and Dilandau stepped out. Kat followed. The door slid closed and Kat got a quick look around her before Dilandau grabbed her arm and drug her off. They were in a dark hall, the walls and ceiling and even floor a dark metal, there was not much light so it looked gloomy.

Dilandau started down the hall with his hand clutching Kat's upper arm. She struggled a little so he would let up on the death grip, but it was a useless struggle. They walked for what seemed like forever to Kat, making twist and sharp turns down the connecting corridors until she was so dizzy she wasn't sure which way they were going.

Finally they came to a stop in front of a door and paused as it slid open for them. Dilandau walked in, still dragging Kat. She found that they were now in a large room with a huge golden lion statue that had a sort of cushion between the forepaws, which turned out to be a throne. Dilandau climbed the flight of stairs to the throne and fell into it, watching as about 12 different guys in the same uniform as Dilandau, only they had blue armor, came forth and surrounded Kat.

Kat took some steps back, unsure of what to do. All of the men looked like they were about to kill her, and they had swords while she had nothing. "Dalet, attack," Dilandau ordered.

It came so suddenly that Kat barely had time to process it before a guy with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes stepped forward and drew a sword.

He lunged at her, almost catching her unaware. But the second that she felt something breeze by her arm she knew the fight was on. She knew there were just a few precious seconds before her chance would be over so she stuck her foot out. Dalet stumbled forward, trying to recover from tripping over her foot. She elbowed him in the back, sending him flying and landing on the ground in front of her. Her foot went flying and she caught him in the ribs, watching as he rolled up into a ball.

Dilandau watched this his eyes alight with fire. He liked this girl's talent. "Gatti, Chesta, attack!" He ordered.

A boy with short blonde hair and blue eyes stepped forward with a short boy with blonde hair and bluish green eyes. They drew their swords and charged Kat.

Kat saw them coming and didn't move mostly because she was trying to figure out what they were going to do, but also because she wanted to try a move. She saw them get ready to attack when they were just seconds away, and then she jumped up high in the air just as their swords crashed against each other and whirled around. She took a hold of both their heads as they started to fall back, stunned, and whammed them together while she was in the air and then let go. They both fell back, and Kat landed, very proud that the move worked.

"Miguel, Guimel, Viole, attack!" Dilandau ordered.

A boy with brown hair and blue eyes stepped forward along with a boy with fluffy pale blonde hair, green eyes and another boy with long dark brown hair and blue eyes. Now Kat was no black belt in any form of martial arts, but she had been a gymnast in her earlier years. She knew when she was out numbered and when to run. Right now, this was a time to run but she couldn't. I guess it's time to see if those lessons in every martial art form ever invented actually will pay off, she thought.

She allowed them to rush her. But just before one of them got to her, she rushed him, ducked under his sword, and threw herself against his stomach. He fell over with her but she was planning on this. Quick as a flash, she was up and off of him as soon as he hit the ground, making sure to stun him some more by stepping on him. Then she ran towards another who was running at her.

This time she fell down and slid, knocking his feet out from under him and causing him to fall on his face. So baseball lessons did pay off, she thought as she stood and faced the last challenger. She waited till he was right in front of her before she jumped up in the air and kicked him in the face. He dropped his sword and fell backwards. Kat landed and picked up the sword and pointed it at his throat.

"Enough!" Dilandau called just as Kat raised the sword over her head.

She was pretending like she was going to deliver the final swing when really half of it was for effect.

"Come here," Dilandau said to Kat. She looked at him and then the sword in her hands. She could take them, now that she had a weapon. Sure she had no idea how to battle sword-to-sword, but she could use a few tricks.

That's when she heard the door open. She looked up and saw Alex and Nicole walk in, escorted by guards wearing the same outfits as the people around her. "Kat!" They both cried, seeing her.

Kat wanted so badly to run up to them and hug them, but she saw the soldiers she had just beat start to get up.

"Kat, look out!" Nicole cried.

"Behind you!" Alex added.

Kat whirled around to see Dilandau charging her, sword raised. I can't take him, she thought. But in the heat of the moment, she found that she raised her sword and blocked his attack, locking their swords together.

"Back down, now," he hissed at her, putting pressure on her sword.

Kat could feel her arms about to break. She tried to fight back and put pressure on her sword, but she felt like it was nothing. I can't get out of this lock, she thought. There's only one thing I can do now. Instead of putting pressure on her sword, she pushed it up. Both swords went flying up in the air. Taking a chance, she kicked Dilandau so he stepped back, turned, and ran. The path was clear for a few seconds, before someone reached out and grabbed her ankle.

She went flying and hit the floor hard, stunning her. "I have her, sir!"

"Bring her here."

Kat felt herself being yanked upwards and dragged off. She tried to fight but she was still stunned from her fall. She heard Nicole and Alex yelling something, but she couldn't make sense of it. She was held by two guards next to Dilandau as he began the same thing that he had done with her.

She was forced to watch Nicole and Alex go through the same thing that she had done. She watched as they beat the boys with some problems. At one point, Kat was sure Nicole was going to get killed before Nicole had jumped up and dived away.

"Enough! Bring forth the clothes," Dilandau ordered once Alex and Nicole had beaten their last guy.

Viole disappeared and came back a minute later holding a stack of something. He walked up to Kat and offered her something off the pile. Kat took it and saw that it was pants and a white shirt. Viole then offered the same thing to Alex and Nicole, who took it.

"You now are part of the Dragon Slayers," Dilandau said.

Kat, Alex and Nicole all looked at him, and then at each other. "A what-a-what?" Alex asked

"With taking these," Dilandau motioned at the clothes they were holding, "you accept the duty of becoming a soldier and to help fight any enemies of Zaibach."

Kat glanced at Alex and Nicole. They both nodded. "We don't accept," Kat said.

Dilandau glared at them. "There is no choice of whether or not you want to become a Dragon Slayer. You are now one and you will stay one. If not, then we will simply kill you and your pathetic sisters."

"Uh, isn't there a choice C?"

"Gatti, show them to their rooms," he ordered.

Gatti stepped forward and Alex, Nicole and Kat all followed him reluctantly.