Grr! I indented and put this lovely little line, which separated my story
from my comments. But do they come up, no they don't. I think I might take
my anger out on this chapter. Oh and I think I'll have some of the Slayers
in this chapter, I like the Dragonslayers. They all get to eat what I had
this morning, too damn bad I not a morning person so I couldn't properly
enjoy it. Hmmm, I don't think they have plates that they carry around. So
what should I make them eat off of? Well I think they'll carry plates this
one time, after their strong young men they should be able to carry plates.
Oh and if you didn't know, a friend told me that the white part on a horses
forehead is called a blaze, hope that is right.
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne, but I just realized that I do own Dotario's name.
It's time to thank my reviewers!
Feye Morgan: Thanks for reviewing my chapters so far, I don't exactly know how I got my last chapter to upload so quickly either. (
lilchibi: Yes, I have to two Dilandau's in this fic. So I had to name the older one different and his name just so happens to be Dotario (your Dotario's song is in my head!). Can you believe we have 3 Dotario's now?
To the story we go.
Warnings
Chapter 4 - Linpar
When Dilandau had awoken the smell of breakfast reached his nostrils and caused his stomach to growl. He sat up and stretched with a loud yawn, finding that Dotario and Adriana were gone. 'Maybe it was all a dream.' he thought, but instantly he knew he was lying. Their beds for the night had the covers off and it looked as if someone had slept there. He grabbed his red and black armor and began the task of buckling it in place. The boy simply ran his fingers through his silver locks as a hairbrush and headed outside.
All the Dragonslayers were up, milling around eating their breakfast, and discussing yesterdays raid. He spotted his guests eating a distant from the group, sitting under the shade of a nearby oak tree. As Viole noticed his presence, the Slayer nudged his neighbor and it went so on until the entire cavalry was quiet awaiting anything from him.
The pyromaniac turned his attention away from the two under the tree and towards his men. Guimel handed his commander a plate with bacon and French toast, to drink a canteen of water. His Slayers knew he wasn't one to get drunk before he has seen Lord Folken, he was constantly getting yelled at as it was. A drunken psycho with a superior didn't go well with Zaibach's system.
Dilandau took the silverware given to him from another of his soldiers and began to eat. The Dragonslayers went on with their chatter after they saw he was having a good morning and not slapping them to death because of this or that. The young albino looked around at the scenery. Large trees of oak and pine surrounded them, even though a field was just north of where they were camped. That's where all of the guymelefs were. The fire-eyed commander thought of the wonderful destruction he had caused yesterday. The screams piercing the air with frantically panicked residents running around, only for their cries of help to be droned out by his laughter.
They had just burned down an allies' village yesterday because Dilandau felt that his Slayers still need experience and was bored out of his mind. Sitting in the training room on Vione, watching his elite soldiers train was nice. But after having most of his toys, which consisted of matches, large candles, daggers, and most of his wine, confiscated by Folken he didn't find much to do. That was one reason he was taking the two to Vione, they had their warnings, but he also needed something to occupy his interest for a second or two. 'Even if that damn girl scares the shit out of me.' he thought looking over to them both staring at him from their shaded spot.
Dotario brushed a strand of waist length, silver hair from his face as he finished his breakfast. He caught Dilandau giving Adriana a fearful look. The birds chirped sweetly as the two turned their gaze from Dilandau to talk to each other.
"You won't be mean to him will you? It is more than obvious to me that he fears you." Dotario stated looking down at the cloaked teenager.
"Perhaps." she said with extreme softness in her light tone of voice.
"It isn't kind to be mean to people."
Adriana smiled at that sentence, "You should watch what you preach."
Dilandau saw her lips move and felt a pang of jealously to the fact that she wouldn't say one word to him, other than her lovely words she growled out last night. He wanted to get closer and listen, but it would probably be useless to try. He could tell when someone was around, he didn't see why that should change in a few years. A thought came to his mind then, had he been staring all morning at the both of them? The albino faced his Slayers and they looked away quickly. 'Looks like they're interested in what I think about those people.' Dilandau thought.
Soon everyone was done eating and the difficult process of packing up the tents and supplies was out of the way. The Dragonslayers lined up, waiting for their commander to brief them on what they were doing today. Adriana and Dotario stood off to the side talking to Dilandau before he went and informed the Dragonslayers.
"We need to get our horse and or stuff." Dotario stated plainly.
Dilandau blinked and stared at Dotario, "There is no why in hell I am bringing a horse on Vione. The girl can fit in the cockpit of one on my Slayers and you'll have to ride on the outside of a 'melef."
"What about Linpar?" the man asked.
"I don't care what you do with the horse! Gods, you could push it off a cliff and I wouldn't care!" Dilandau said with arms moving around for emphasis, then rested crossed over his chest.
"Adriana loves Linpar, we can't just abandon the horse. Doesn't Zaibach have a stable?"
The commander agreed to have Shesta drop the horse off at the stables. This stable trained horses to carry the "important" people of Zaibach properly. After all, Adriana loved the horse, but Dilandau still had something to say as Dotario let the girl leave early to get Linpar with a smile on her lips. She needed to put some clothes on seeing as she only had her cloak too. "From what I have seen of you, I grow up to be a pathetic man." he sneered.
Dotario grabbed Dilandau's throat and pulled him towards his face. "I'll act polite when the girl is around, but don't ever piss me off. I am worse than you think you snotty ass, little dipshit." he growled releasing him. A silver brow was raised as Dilandau looked up at him with a cocky smile. "I guess some things never change," Dilandau's smile was replaced with an irritated frown, "But why are you so kind to the girl, other than the whole . . . . thing she can do, why would you not kill that quiet girl?"
Dotario's face looked worried as he mentioned how she was "quiet". "What's wrong? And you damn well better answer me!" Dilandau yelled.
"She's going after the sugar! I have to go before Adriana gets into sugar, bad things happen when she switches to hyper!" he screamed running out into the forest to stop the madness before it happened.
Dilandau couldn't truly believe that girl could ever become hyper, he thought that Dotario was just using that as an excuse to leave. As he watched himself disappear to find Adriana he turned to his men. They had heard their conversation no doubt and for once Dilandau thought they deserved to know what was happening. He approached his men with a straight posture as he paced in front of them stopping now and then, speaking clear and loudly.
"We are bringing guests back to Vione with us. I do not want any of you to bother them and only speak to them when it is necessary. The girl will absolutely not be messed with or have one single trick pulled against her. You all know the same applies to the man. The man is actually myself from a different time, the girl is . . . . just leave her alone. She won't mess with you as long as you stay out of her way."
"Shesta," the blond boy looked his commander in the eye as he stepped forward to hear his instructions. "You are not going to take the horse to Zaibach's stables, you are going to kill it in the distance. I'll be expecting you to return later in the day to make it look like you truly took the horse. That is all for you, so when they bring the horse, take off before us and slaughter it." Shesta bowed with a "Yes Lord Dilandau" and returned back with his spot among the other Slayers.
"Dallet," Dilandau called next standing in front of the brown haired Slayer. He took a step forward and waited for his commander to tell him what to do. "You will have the girl fly in your guymelef with you, do not disobey my orders and do not do anything to anger her!" Dallet did the same as Shesta, bowing with the respect to his commander with another "Yes Lord Dilandau" filling the air.
"You all have you orders, be ready to stall before we hike to the guymelefs as soon as they appear." he said as his Dragonslayers yelled in unison "Yes Lord Dilandau" after his commands.
The two came just right on time with their horse and small bags thrown over their shoulders. Shesta walked over to them and hoped that his commander would find this a moment necessary to talk. The Slayer grabbed the reins of Linpar, "I'll be taking him to the stables for you both." he said politely getting onto the saddle.
Adriana interfered with his plan to simply trot away by standing directly in his way, softly petting Linpar's white blaze. But what intimidated Shesta, was that her head was bowing from the angle he sat, yet her green eyes were staring up at him as if she knew what he was going to do.
"Come on Adriana." Dotario said grabbing her wrist and practically dragging her away from the horses' muzzle, "We can visit Linpar later."
She continued to stare at Shesta, even as he trotted away. He could feel her hot glare focused only on his back. Shesta was relieved to be galloping and getting away from her. The second the blond was out of sight and earshot he shuddered. "That girl gives me the creeps!" he said to no one in particular but felt obligated to warn the forests creatures. He veered off the path of dirt and let the horse take off when he saw the 'melefs. He let Linpar start running as fast as he could and ever would again. When he felt that the screams of a horse could not be heard from afar he tied the animal to a tree tightly. Linpar's tired legs were unable to run anymore as Shesta drew his sword.
"I'm sorry," he whispered to the horse holding its face to his chest. "I have to follow my commanders orders."
And with those apologetic words he quickly slashed across the horses face. Letting his sword slit and slice the horses' slender chestnut brown legs. He sheathed his sword as he saw the mammal drop to the grass neighing in agonizing screams, the bridal forcing it to get back up as it tugged on the bleeding horses head. It wildly kicked, trying to stand and escape the bridal and pain, but to no avail it had. As Linpar kicked itself up, the horse managed to get itself caught in the reins. The heavy weight of the horse and strangling effect evolved into a slow death became even more apparent to the horse. He struggled to leave and live, but soon the blood loss and energy left the poor horse.
Shesta sighed at the misfortune of the horse, keeping himself from throwing up and watched as its eyes glazed over in its pool of blood. He had killed before, but this time he felt sorry about it. 'Must be that girl, she must be some type of witch.' he thought. With the horse dead he quickly ran to guymelefs before the others caught up and to escape the sight. He wasn't sure where he was going, but since his lord hadn't placed any restrictions he decided to visit home. He also made a mental note to stay away from horse for a while.
~ Done for this chapter! ~
Ok, I know I finally got my story to have a semi-long chapter. I was going to have to them get to their guymelefs, but I'll save that for the next chapter. And I hope the little squiggles help to show I ended the chapter. I'm so mean, I made Shesta kill a horsie that Adriana cared about. Who wants to beat that she actually knew what he was going to do? Looks like Dallet will be the joyful one to share a guymelef with Adriana!
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne, but I just realized that I do own Dotario's name.
It's time to thank my reviewers!
Feye Morgan: Thanks for reviewing my chapters so far, I don't exactly know how I got my last chapter to upload so quickly either. (
lilchibi: Yes, I have to two Dilandau's in this fic. So I had to name the older one different and his name just so happens to be Dotario (your Dotario's song is in my head!). Can you believe we have 3 Dotario's now?
To the story we go.
Warnings
Chapter 4 - Linpar
When Dilandau had awoken the smell of breakfast reached his nostrils and caused his stomach to growl. He sat up and stretched with a loud yawn, finding that Dotario and Adriana were gone. 'Maybe it was all a dream.' he thought, but instantly he knew he was lying. Their beds for the night had the covers off and it looked as if someone had slept there. He grabbed his red and black armor and began the task of buckling it in place. The boy simply ran his fingers through his silver locks as a hairbrush and headed outside.
All the Dragonslayers were up, milling around eating their breakfast, and discussing yesterdays raid. He spotted his guests eating a distant from the group, sitting under the shade of a nearby oak tree. As Viole noticed his presence, the Slayer nudged his neighbor and it went so on until the entire cavalry was quiet awaiting anything from him.
The pyromaniac turned his attention away from the two under the tree and towards his men. Guimel handed his commander a plate with bacon and French toast, to drink a canteen of water. His Slayers knew he wasn't one to get drunk before he has seen Lord Folken, he was constantly getting yelled at as it was. A drunken psycho with a superior didn't go well with Zaibach's system.
Dilandau took the silverware given to him from another of his soldiers and began to eat. The Dragonslayers went on with their chatter after they saw he was having a good morning and not slapping them to death because of this or that. The young albino looked around at the scenery. Large trees of oak and pine surrounded them, even though a field was just north of where they were camped. That's where all of the guymelefs were. The fire-eyed commander thought of the wonderful destruction he had caused yesterday. The screams piercing the air with frantically panicked residents running around, only for their cries of help to be droned out by his laughter.
They had just burned down an allies' village yesterday because Dilandau felt that his Slayers still need experience and was bored out of his mind. Sitting in the training room on Vione, watching his elite soldiers train was nice. But after having most of his toys, which consisted of matches, large candles, daggers, and most of his wine, confiscated by Folken he didn't find much to do. That was one reason he was taking the two to Vione, they had their warnings, but he also needed something to occupy his interest for a second or two. 'Even if that damn girl scares the shit out of me.' he thought looking over to them both staring at him from their shaded spot.
Dotario brushed a strand of waist length, silver hair from his face as he finished his breakfast. He caught Dilandau giving Adriana a fearful look. The birds chirped sweetly as the two turned their gaze from Dilandau to talk to each other.
"You won't be mean to him will you? It is more than obvious to me that he fears you." Dotario stated looking down at the cloaked teenager.
"Perhaps." she said with extreme softness in her light tone of voice.
"It isn't kind to be mean to people."
Adriana smiled at that sentence, "You should watch what you preach."
Dilandau saw her lips move and felt a pang of jealously to the fact that she wouldn't say one word to him, other than her lovely words she growled out last night. He wanted to get closer and listen, but it would probably be useless to try. He could tell when someone was around, he didn't see why that should change in a few years. A thought came to his mind then, had he been staring all morning at the both of them? The albino faced his Slayers and they looked away quickly. 'Looks like they're interested in what I think about those people.' Dilandau thought.
Soon everyone was done eating and the difficult process of packing up the tents and supplies was out of the way. The Dragonslayers lined up, waiting for their commander to brief them on what they were doing today. Adriana and Dotario stood off to the side talking to Dilandau before he went and informed the Dragonslayers.
"We need to get our horse and or stuff." Dotario stated plainly.
Dilandau blinked and stared at Dotario, "There is no why in hell I am bringing a horse on Vione. The girl can fit in the cockpit of one on my Slayers and you'll have to ride on the outside of a 'melef."
"What about Linpar?" the man asked.
"I don't care what you do with the horse! Gods, you could push it off a cliff and I wouldn't care!" Dilandau said with arms moving around for emphasis, then rested crossed over his chest.
"Adriana loves Linpar, we can't just abandon the horse. Doesn't Zaibach have a stable?"
The commander agreed to have Shesta drop the horse off at the stables. This stable trained horses to carry the "important" people of Zaibach properly. After all, Adriana loved the horse, but Dilandau still had something to say as Dotario let the girl leave early to get Linpar with a smile on her lips. She needed to put some clothes on seeing as she only had her cloak too. "From what I have seen of you, I grow up to be a pathetic man." he sneered.
Dotario grabbed Dilandau's throat and pulled him towards his face. "I'll act polite when the girl is around, but don't ever piss me off. I am worse than you think you snotty ass, little dipshit." he growled releasing him. A silver brow was raised as Dilandau looked up at him with a cocky smile. "I guess some things never change," Dilandau's smile was replaced with an irritated frown, "But why are you so kind to the girl, other than the whole . . . . thing she can do, why would you not kill that quiet girl?"
Dotario's face looked worried as he mentioned how she was "quiet". "What's wrong? And you damn well better answer me!" Dilandau yelled.
"She's going after the sugar! I have to go before Adriana gets into sugar, bad things happen when she switches to hyper!" he screamed running out into the forest to stop the madness before it happened.
Dilandau couldn't truly believe that girl could ever become hyper, he thought that Dotario was just using that as an excuse to leave. As he watched himself disappear to find Adriana he turned to his men. They had heard their conversation no doubt and for once Dilandau thought they deserved to know what was happening. He approached his men with a straight posture as he paced in front of them stopping now and then, speaking clear and loudly.
"We are bringing guests back to Vione with us. I do not want any of you to bother them and only speak to them when it is necessary. The girl will absolutely not be messed with or have one single trick pulled against her. You all know the same applies to the man. The man is actually myself from a different time, the girl is . . . . just leave her alone. She won't mess with you as long as you stay out of her way."
"Shesta," the blond boy looked his commander in the eye as he stepped forward to hear his instructions. "You are not going to take the horse to Zaibach's stables, you are going to kill it in the distance. I'll be expecting you to return later in the day to make it look like you truly took the horse. That is all for you, so when they bring the horse, take off before us and slaughter it." Shesta bowed with a "Yes Lord Dilandau" and returned back with his spot among the other Slayers.
"Dallet," Dilandau called next standing in front of the brown haired Slayer. He took a step forward and waited for his commander to tell him what to do. "You will have the girl fly in your guymelef with you, do not disobey my orders and do not do anything to anger her!" Dallet did the same as Shesta, bowing with the respect to his commander with another "Yes Lord Dilandau" filling the air.
"You all have you orders, be ready to stall before we hike to the guymelefs as soon as they appear." he said as his Dragonslayers yelled in unison "Yes Lord Dilandau" after his commands.
The two came just right on time with their horse and small bags thrown over their shoulders. Shesta walked over to them and hoped that his commander would find this a moment necessary to talk. The Slayer grabbed the reins of Linpar, "I'll be taking him to the stables for you both." he said politely getting onto the saddle.
Adriana interfered with his plan to simply trot away by standing directly in his way, softly petting Linpar's white blaze. But what intimidated Shesta, was that her head was bowing from the angle he sat, yet her green eyes were staring up at him as if she knew what he was going to do.
"Come on Adriana." Dotario said grabbing her wrist and practically dragging her away from the horses' muzzle, "We can visit Linpar later."
She continued to stare at Shesta, even as he trotted away. He could feel her hot glare focused only on his back. Shesta was relieved to be galloping and getting away from her. The second the blond was out of sight and earshot he shuddered. "That girl gives me the creeps!" he said to no one in particular but felt obligated to warn the forests creatures. He veered off the path of dirt and let the horse take off when he saw the 'melefs. He let Linpar start running as fast as he could and ever would again. When he felt that the screams of a horse could not be heard from afar he tied the animal to a tree tightly. Linpar's tired legs were unable to run anymore as Shesta drew his sword.
"I'm sorry," he whispered to the horse holding its face to his chest. "I have to follow my commanders orders."
And with those apologetic words he quickly slashed across the horses face. Letting his sword slit and slice the horses' slender chestnut brown legs. He sheathed his sword as he saw the mammal drop to the grass neighing in agonizing screams, the bridal forcing it to get back up as it tugged on the bleeding horses head. It wildly kicked, trying to stand and escape the bridal and pain, but to no avail it had. As Linpar kicked itself up, the horse managed to get itself caught in the reins. The heavy weight of the horse and strangling effect evolved into a slow death became even more apparent to the horse. He struggled to leave and live, but soon the blood loss and energy left the poor horse.
Shesta sighed at the misfortune of the horse, keeping himself from throwing up and watched as its eyes glazed over in its pool of blood. He had killed before, but this time he felt sorry about it. 'Must be that girl, she must be some type of witch.' he thought. With the horse dead he quickly ran to guymelefs before the others caught up and to escape the sight. He wasn't sure where he was going, but since his lord hadn't placed any restrictions he decided to visit home. He also made a mental note to stay away from horse for a while.
~ Done for this chapter! ~
Ok, I know I finally got my story to have a semi-long chapter. I was going to have to them get to their guymelefs, but I'll save that for the next chapter. And I hope the little squiggles help to show I ended the chapter. I'm so mean, I made Shesta kill a horsie that Adriana cared about. Who wants to beat that she actually knew what he was going to do? Looks like Dallet will be the joyful one to share a guymelef with Adriana!