Disclaimers: I do not own Escaflowne, but I wish, though I do own Ashley, she meh character.
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter six
Ashley was still sleeping when the guys got up the next morning, which was a good thing in their opinions. Apparently they were damn near terrorfied of the 'wrath' they were going to sooner than later endure. They just couldn't imagine what. So, that morning they had their eyes peeled for any kind of weird or odd thing in or outside of their rooms.
The seven young men were all seated around their table in the mess hall idly chatting and pushing food along the edges of their plates. They were all wary, of everything, and everyone else ont he Vione. For all they know the blasted girl could have made some 'freinds' that would do and tell her things that could give her an edge on her pranks. It was like Armagedon and they were afraid that hell was a little closer to home than they naturally thought.
" So, Viole what do you think she'll do to us?" Guimel asked as he set his glass down. Viole glanced at him sideways and almost glared at him.
" I don't know, what do you think she'll do to us?" He asked him back.
" If I knew I wouldn't be ask'in you." Viole snorted at this while Dalet chuckled lightly. Sometimes some playful bickering amongst themselves always helped to lighten the weight on their shoulders.
As they resumed their meals, our tiny little female terror was thinking up ideas to torture her freinds. Well, actually she was most likely dreaming them up, but for some reason, everything wasn't right.
Ashley was laying on her bed, which was normal for anyone sleeping in their room... on a bed. She was laying on her back, legs and arms bent at odd angles, neck mushed on one side, her mouth all the way open and light snore could be heard. The light was shining brightly in through the bay window since Ashley forgot to draw the curtains before she went to bed. (( I can't sleep if I don't and my windows are a foot above my head, I'm 5'0)) It was about ten in the morning, and almost the time when Ashley normally got up. Though, cracking a viole eye open she groggily got up thirty minutes earlier. She definately had some work to do, and it would be the best job she's ever done.
" Hm, I wonder what I should do." she mused to herself as she went to her armour and pulled out a little summer dress. The dress was pale blue with little white flowers in the fabric. The top was tight and ribbed with two ties to make spagetti straps at her shoudlers. The dress ended at mid-thigh and came with matching bootie shorts. (( ya know the kind shirley temple wore under her little dresses)) She grabbed her brush and just ran it through her hair once and left it down. Grabbing a pair of sandals she bought in Austuria, they were pale blue to match her dress, the sandals were like old day Roman sandals, the flat leather soles were dyed dark blue with silk baby blue ribbons crisscrossing over her feet and up her legs tieing at mid-calf. Satisfied with her litte ansamble she threw open her bedroom door with her gameboy and went started skipping down the hallway towards the mess hall.
" Maybe I'll....no no too easy to spot." She mumbled to herself as she began to click furiously at her gameboys grey buttons. Ignoring the bewildered looks at her outfit she made her way towards the boys table.
Standing before them she smiled as her gameboy signaled she had beaten the level. Then turning it off she proceeded to sit down and watch, studying everyone like she normally does.
" So, what's up Ashley?" Chesta asked casually. He was the only one not exactly afraid of her, she was their freind. Yes they could be mean to each other and unmerciful in a prank but she was innocent and kind and would think about the actions before doing them. So he had nothing to fear, right?
" Nothing, woke up, got dressed, was stared at the whole way here, played my game boy, annoyed you guys. Not too much, so what's up with you guys?" Ashley's answer was fast but didn't go unnoticed by some people.
" We're just sitting here, eating." Dilandau answered for the first time the group had ever started talking. He on the other hand was not the least bit afraid or anxious to find out what she would do. What would happen would happen, though he doubted if she would do anything to them.
Ashley smiled at them and her violet eyes were lighter than before, they even twinkled, though to anyone close to her this meant they were in for the ride of their lives. Still smiling she set her game boy down and nodded, then jumping up she literally skipped out of the mess hall doors. All boys sitting at the table watched her nervously, all wondering what she was up to, though still not anxious to find out.
Ashley was laughing evilly to herself her entire treck to her brothers lab, she knew that he would, and could help her with this prank. She had already decided on which one she was going to do. It was a prank someone had played on the entire councelors group. Ashley loved the idea and decided to give the boys a taste of the Mystic Moon in all its glory. Yes, there were many, many nice things she could have taught them like hockey or something but she thought this was better. Or at least to her since she wasn't on the receiving end of the deal. Catching sight of her brothers large, double doored lab she skipped happily up to it and knocked three times. She waited three minutes before frowning and knocking again this time more demandingly.
" Come in, Kurai." Was heard through the door, Ashley scrunched up her nose, her brother knew she hated to be called that. Yes, Kurai Murasaki de Fanel was her given name, but she grew up most of her life with Ashley and she wasn't about to change. Besides, his name was really Folken Laquor de Fanel but he now demands she call him Folken Strategos of Zaibach. Calming her nerves and setting her face into a blank expression she pushed the heavy oak doors open and let them swish closed behind her as she entered.
The room was large, dark, a very metallic like, her brother stood by a low metallic operating table like thing. He was hunched over peering into the eye of a microscope, most likely trying to mess with mother nature. His black cloak was off and he was wearing his pale blue tank top, his mecanical arm supporting him up while he wrote down something on a pad off paper. Now was the only time she actually noticed his hair came to hise shoulders, weird hair cut if you asked her, she'd rather him cut it or grow it out so it was all the same length at his shoulders. Sighing Ashley walked casually over to a stool that was seated opposite of her brother on the other side of the metallic table. The room was cold and sent shivers up her spine every so often, her normally pale skin now had an edge of pink, apparently he had to keep the room cold cause of most of his experiments.
Sitting down at the stool Ashley folded her arms on her table, almost afraid they'd get frozen there. Leaning her chin down she rested it on the tops of her forearms and looked at the slide he was looking at. The slide was bright red against the light, indicating that it was a blood sample, frowning Ashley looked up at her brother who was once again looking inside the eye peice of the microscope, every so often tuning the Fine and Course adjustment knobs to get a better veiw of the blood sample. After studying him for about fifteen minutes Ashley thought it safe to ask him her questions, all the while trying to sound cute, innocent, and polite.
" Hey um niisan, are you really, really, really, extremely busy right now?" She asked him while idly twirling a peice of hair between her fingers. Her looked away from the eye peice to study her a moment before smirking, she wasn't fooling him.
" Yes, I am really, really, really, extremely busy right now, why ever do you ask koneko?" Folken said extremely sweetly. Frowning as she watched him go back to his work she decided to go around about it in a way.
" Oh, what are you working on?" She asked him, he didn't look up but he did answer.
" Looking at some blood samples of everyone on board the Vione, well besides you, because there is a weird cold going around and I'm trying to find a cure." He explained, Ashley nodded her head slowly as if she understood, though in truth she didn't understand anything. " Why do you ask komoko otome?" He smirked as she frowned, even though he hadn't looked away didn't mean he couldn't see her face.
" Well, I was kinda wondering if you could help me." She said in a small voice, blinking he rose one of his pale blue eye brows and looked away from his samples to look at her fully.
" what kind of help?"
" I just need some sort of a liquid that will make anyone who drinks it shit themselves, and I mean really, really, really bad." Folken blinked and then began to chuckle ever so slightly until it became an all out laugh. Ashley blinked but shrugged it off, he stopped about two seconds later and nodded his head.
" Yes, I'll have it done for you before dinner time." Folken said, Ashley squeeled and jumped off from her seat, then she literally threw herself at him. Hugging his tightly she buried her face into his stomach and stayed there. Folken smiled gently down upon his little sister and held her close to him, stroking her hair affectionately. "Now, run along, I must get some work done before I make your little chemical." He said backing away from her, Ashley nodded smiling widely before running out of the door.
' I wonder what she'll be doing with it..' he said to himself as he bent over his blood samples once again attempting to get some work done.
Ashley didn't stop running until she made her way to a part of the Vione she didn't recognize. Frowning she looked around and noticed there was a set of large black doors, shrugging her shoulders she decided to check out the rooom. Pushing them open slightly she walked slowly inside, shivering slightly at how cold it was she noticed that it was a throne room of some sort. In the middle of the room was a large black chair with red velvet cushioning. It was set up on two steps, the entire room was a black void, with only a lone lamp hanging up above the black and red chair. A black end table sat next to it with a clear glass bottle, and a dagger on top. The glass bottle was only filled half way.
Walking slowly towards the throne she felt the room get colder and visibly shuddered this time. It was spooky, even for her, and extremely cold, walking up to the throne she walked around it and put her hands on it running them along the upholstery. Coming to the front she stood there staring ahead of her, there was a lone window behind the chair, with a thick black curtain, only a thin stream of light dared to penetrate the darkness. She felt that she wasn't alone, and that who ever was in here was very close, she could almost hear them breathing. Her body stiffened as she saw a shadow cast itself over her and the chair, she was about to turned around when someone leaned their head down onto her shoulder and whispered into her right ear.
" What are you doing in my throne room?" the voice whispered, it was cold, monotoned, yet slightly amused. Slightly startled Ashley turned around only to fall into the chair, sitting down.
Then when she spotted who was standing before her she scowled, it was Dilandau, he had been the one who scared her. He had been doing a lot of that hadn't he? " Well, answer the question?" He smiled down at the rapidly blinking girl, his smile turned into a wolfish grin as he rest his hands on either sides of the chair on the arm rests.
As he leaned forward towards her Ashley scooted back until she was practically trying to become one with the chair. He was literally scaring her, she didn't know if he was drunk, psycotic, or just both. Swallowing a lump forming in her throat she stared into his fiery crimson eyes and knew he wasn't drunk, just...crazy. Blinking she bit her lip and watched as he moved his left hand from the arm rest of the chair to her thigh, which was now and totally bare from her dress riding up.
" I-I was just.... um...just walking through.. and found this door... and decided to...um... explore the room..." She answered, slightly stuttering as she went, he smirked wickedly and leaned in so that their faces were merely only inches apart.
" Well, you shouldn't exaclty be in here. See, little girls who go unattended can get into some pretty nasty situations, such as the beginnings of this one." He spoke these words to her in a dangerously low voice, Ashley bit her bottom lip once again to keep it from trembling, she was actually scared shitless, and apparently this was driving him to keep going.
As they continued to stare at each other Ashley frowned and spoke to him in a whisper.
" You're crazy." He threw his head back and laughed, then brought it back down to look into her darkening violet eyes.
" Am I really?" He asked, Ashley just blinked, then realizing how uncomfortable this was, since because of their last kiss she pushed him away. He stumbled back and laughed as she jumped off the stairs and ran towards the doors, pulling them open she looked back at his still laughing form and then dashed out the door.
She continued to run until she made it to the rooms of hers and the dragonslayers. Slowling down she leaned against a wall and shivered, she felt cold,scared, worried, and uncertain. Sighing a big heaving puff of breath she pushed herself off the wall with her shoudlers and headed into her room. Not bothering to shut the door she began to make her messy bed and grabbed a deck of cards out of her duffel bag. Sitting back down on the floor she took her shoes off and crossed her legs. Setting up the cards for a game of solitaire, a game she couldn't beat even if her life depended on it. Turning on her mini stereo she switched discs and Pink's ' Don't let it get to me.' filtered through the speakers and into her ears. All she had to do no was wait for her brother to give her his newest concoction, find some type of other worldly saryan wrap, and her camera, then she was all set. But, in the mean time she was going to sit in her room, listen to music, and trying to get the thought of the previous actions Dilandau took out of his concious.
Van and Allen were standing alone on the crusade, it was daylight and they were just enjoying the veiw of the green trees below the slowly floating Crusade. Neither of them really liked each other, they were just another obastacle to saving Gaea, winning Hitomi's heart, and other such things. Silence, silence was the only thing they did agree on however, even though it was such a small simple thing they never really got a chance to grasp it. Sometimes they got a minute or two of the silent feeling, though it was always disturbed by either Merle, Hitomi, or one of the crew. But, right now, at this very window no one knew they were there, and no one could find them.
' I wonder who that girl was...' Van trailed off his thoughts as he shifted her weight from his left foot to the right. He glanced at Allen with his crimson eyes and sighed, Allen was everything Hitomi saw in a guy, he had no chance to compete. ' But, that's what makes it more fun.' he said to himself, an image of Hitomi in that dress Millerna let Hitomi borrow flashed through his mind. He smiled outwardly though it soon turned into a scowl when Allen began to speak.
" I think we should kidnap that girl, Ashley I beleive her name was." Allen said, his voice was low and hushed, he must've not have wanted to be disturbed.
" No, that would be too much for her, I mean think about it, she died then mysteriously came back. " Van said, his twin black eyebrows furrowed together slightly as he chewed on his bottom lip thinking.
" Well, I only said that was because she isn't from here, you heard what Hitomi said she saw. That girl is from the Mystic Moon as well, and since Zaibach took her away from her home she must possess some sort of power similar to Hitomi's. If they have that to use for their every whim this planet is doomed, as well as Hitomi's." Van thought about this before coming to a conclusion.
" Yes, I beleive it is the only way also, but, how do you suppose we get to her?" Allen smirked his I'm-smarter-than-you smirk and turned back to the large window.
" You'll have to let them capture you, see we already know that their flight path is headed towards Freid, well if we get close enough to them they're bound to send someone after you. Plus, Dilandau can't stand you for some reason, so why not a better time. Well, once you get captured you win your way through the girls heart, convince her to come with you and when we come to save you, she'll come to. " Allen explained, Van rolled this through his brain racking the idea for any loops or pulleys that were broken.
" What if she doesn't agree?" Was his whispered reply as someone walked past the door.
" Then, we force her." Allen replied, it was blunt, to the point and extremely short, Van nodded and fell back into his thoughts. The girl looked stangely familiar to him, but he couldn't place it.
Ashley had tried to play solitary six times in the last two hours, she was now on her seventh game and beginning to get very, very, very bored. She was laying on her stomach with a pillow under her chest as she contemplated which card she would pick next. She forgot to shut her door, though didn't mind, it's not like she had anything to hide from anyone. Though everytime someone walked past her door they would stop for a moment and shake their head slowly and start up again. She was oblivious though, she didn't care what others thought, or atleast that's what it seemed. She actually did care, and any critizism someone made about her, jokingly or not she took seriously. Like, one time someone was joking about her hair style of two twin heart shaped ondagos, she was trying to imitate Sailor Moon, so she went home and hade her mother cut it to her shoudlers and she wore it in a ponytail. Then they made a big deal about her cutting her hair so she grew it back. It took a long time and she hasn't cut it since, this was in fourth grade.
Rolling onto her right side she positioned the pillow under her head and curled up, heaving a large sigh she closed her dark violet orbs and fastly went to sleep. She wasn't aware however of the black garbed man standing in her doorwar casting a mean stare down upon her small form. He hurriedly walked away towards her brothers lab, Ashley didn't know it now, but this man would be her worst enemy of all time.
Dilandau didn't understand what was wrong with him, he was doing strange things he thought he couldn't even be possessed into doing. And for what? A small meaningless girl, who would be better off on a street corner asking guys if they wanted a good time. He was sitting on his black and red throne, the same throne he had forced Ashley into and sighed. His bored facade was working as he watched his loyal slayers lounge around the room talking aimlessly in hushed whispers amongst each other. Yes, he loved them, they were his only true family, the only people he ever knew that would literally die for him. He rested his head in his hands and stared down at his lap, it was boring, they wouldn't be reaching Freid for another day or maybe more at the pace the Vione was going.
He sighed bored, he being bored was not good for any healthy person, because after a while they wouldn't be so healthy anymore. He chuckled to himself at his stupid thoughts, and sentences that made no sense. But, the one thing he couldn't keep out of his mind was his longing, his wanting for that damned girl!!
' How can one girl do so much to me?' he asked himself, but he wasn't expecting it to answer back.
' Because you love her.' the eerie female voice whispered out of no where. Dilandau growled loudly causing all commotion in his throne room to stop. He glared at no one in particular which caused every slayer to leave the room.
' No I don't!! She's just another toy for me to play with.' Dilandau argued, though he knew in the back of his distraught mind that he was battling a lost battle. Growling low in his throat he picked up the bottle of Vino off the end table and greedily downed it, he'd do anything to get this bitch out of his head.
Ashley was curled into a small ball with the pillow hugged to her chest, mashed between her legs, chest, arms, and some of her head. The cards she had been playing with were scattered everywhere from when she was sleeping. It was an hour into dinner and most of everyone would be retiring now. Her brother, Folken, walked past her room with the vile of chemicals she had asked for. He glanced towards the oddly opened door and stopped when he saw a large purple lump in the middle of her floor. Blinking he smiled at what he saw, his sister was so cute when she was asleep. Sure, she would never be able to see this, but it was adorable he could watch her all day it was his only way of knowing she was safe int he barracades of her mind, and his ever protective watch. Sighing he knew she'd be pissed off at him if he didn't wake her up, so reluctantly he walked into the room and nudged her side with the tip of his black boots. She stirred, moaned, and flopped over onto her other side, blinking he nudged her again but harder and only succeeded in being swatted and told ' mom, five more minutes please, and a slightly incoherent ' I still wanna ride the tissue box..' before she ceased all motion. Blinking a couple of times he nudged her yet again except more demandingly, her eyes flew open as she stared at him a minute, then blinking her eyes a couple of times, just like he had done only minutes ago, she squinted and said in a groggy voice.
" What?!?" Ashley stood up slowly and began to stretch her arms out and she winced when she heard her back crack.
" Here's your concoction you had me make for you." Folken spoke while holding the large beaker, eye dropper, with this weird smoking neon green liquid, or more like goo.
Ashley rose one delicate eyebrow and gagged, it really stunk it was like a mixture of cooking eggplant and rotten eggs ten folds. Shuddering and squeeking a slow 'eeww' she took it into both of her hands though kept her face to the side.
" Thankz, I think." She said and scrunched her nose up, this was unbearable.
" Alright all you do is slip it into their Vino tonight." Ashley frowned and looked up at him ignoring the gross smell emitting from the beaker.
" How the hell do I do that?!?" Ashley exclaimed, Folken only laughed in return, Ashley glared which made him stop.
" You'll figure something out." Folken then turned on his black booted heels and left, Ashley reavverted her violet hues to the mess in front of her, if she didn't get it out of her room it'll start smelling like it all the time.
Growling Ashley walked out of her room and towards the kitchen, it was maybe about an hour or so past dinner. So that meant, if she slipped the chemical into the bottle of Vino, some how got into their rooms, covered the inside of the tiolet with something, and then gave the vino to the boys in question she'd be set. The only question so far is, would they drink it?
It didn't take her very long to get to the kitchen, walking through the large doors she was met by the smiling face of one of the cooks. He looked down on her with his steely blue eyes and his smile seemingly windened. Ashley new this man, he was one of her brother's freinds, or sort of.
" What can I getcha m'lady?" He asked her in a gruff, yet soft voice.
" Uh, two bottles of highly achoholic vino please." Ashley spoke in a soft, innocent voice which caused the chef to blink. After all what would a young, innocent, and well brought up girl like herself want or need with a highly alchoholic bottle of vino.
" And may I ask what you plan to do with this?" The chef asked warily.
" It's for Dilandau and his Dragon Slayers." Was her short reply, a visible amount of releif washed over the chef as he nodded his head rapidly and went to a cabinet. Pulling on one of the oak doors he reached inside and pulled out the two bottles in question. Ashley smiled as she thanked him, turning around she grinned evilly and her eyes held a wicked gleam to them. Walking fastly to her room she went inside and shut the door. Setting the two bottles on the bedside table she opened the corks. Picking up the large beaker, while plugging her nose, she poured half it's contents into one bottle and the other half in the other one.
Looking around her room she found a bottle of fingernail polish remover and started to hammer the corks back in as if to not seem suspicious. Then picking them up she began to shake them up, watching as the neon green liquid seemed to blend in nicely with the pigment of the red vino. Softly cackling evilly, she still didn't want someone to find her out, she took the two bottles to her door and thought a moment.
' Maybe I can put a ten hour block on the inside of the toilet, like putting saryan wrap, only you wont see a gleam when the light hits it.' Smiling broadly she opened her door and walked out, slowly closing the door.
Checking each room, by putting her ear up to it, she soon found out where the boys were. Taking a deep breathe and putting on a sweet face she knocked three times on the door. All sound seemed to stop as someone opened the door a little bit, then a little bit more. In the doorway stood Gatti in his boxers. Blinking Ashley's violet eyes widened though she didn't take her eyes off of Gatti's face, because if she looked down, she'd be looking at something she really didn't want to be looking at. Smiling shakily she held out the twin bottles of vino.
" Hey ya, I wanted to come over and share some vino with ya'll." She spoke, her voice never wavering or giving any hint to suspicion. Gatti smiled and stepped aside after taking the two bottles into his large hands.
Ashley immdiatly almost regretted walking through the door, almost half the dragonslayers were.... naked. Blinking rapidly before squinting her eyes tightly shut she turned around and blindly ran into Gatti's bathroom. She heard some shouts from her freinds and almost laughed. Slamming the door shut she turned to the toilet and grinned. ' Too easy.' she said to herself as she knelt down in front of the toilet. She was actually surprised the toilet was this clean, but then again she had heard how Dilandau loved a clean area so each dragonslayer tried to be the cleanest.
Checking the door again she turned back to the task at hand, holding her own hand up she whispered some incoherent words and her forefinger began to glow a light shade of lavender. Hovering it over the inside of the toilet bowls edge she watched as a seemingly purple glow emitted a sheild before totally dissappearing but she could tell it was there.
Ashley was about to pat herself on the back when there was a knock on the door, Ashley thought about earlier and blushed. It wasn't really the first time she'd seen a person naked, I mean they do have sex ed in schools, but these were her buddies.
" Ashley, are you ok?" Ashley heard Chesta's worried voice float through the doorway, a slight pang of guilt ran through her heart but quickly vanished.
" Yeah, I'm fine." She called out, opening the door she was glad to see they were at least wearing pants. " Strip Poker, god Gatti you ass." Ashley mumbled and smacked him lightly on the arm. " Could have warned or told me." She added before smacking him again.
" Sorry" was his sheepish reply.
" Well I'm gonna go now..." Ashley trailed off as she turned on her heels and went to open the door only to have it slam into her face. She stumbled back holding her nose, her eyes were watery but she was trying not to cry. Pulling her hand back it was covered in blood. Blinking, Ashley's vision became blurry at the sight, there were few things she was afraid of and one of those few was blood. Looking up at the one who barged into Gatti's room she saw none other than Dilandau himself. Glaring slightly Ashley fell back, she had fainted.
Once again everyone was in the medical bay; eveyone consisting of Dilandau, Chesta, Folken, Ryou, Gatti, Guimel, Dalet,Viole, and Migel; Ashley was laying, once again, on the white hospital bed. Her nose was patched up and was stained with blood, she just sat there glaring daggers at Dilandau, whom didn't seem to care.
" Why the fuck didn't you knock!!" She finally exclaimed, everyone seemed to jump at the sudden outburst.
" I don't need to knock." Was his only reply.
" Er, you soooooo deserve the prank your getting." She mumbled before hopping off the bed. The doctor came back into the room and smiled at Ashley.
" Well, the nose isn't broken, just bleeding, now take off the bandage and let us see if it has stopped bleeding." The doctor insturcted her, Ashley happily took it off and was relieved to see it had stopped bleeding. Grinning Ashley looked around the room, finally spotting the bathroom she ran inside, not caring who thought her odd. Closing the door and locking it she sat ont eh toilet seat and closed her eyes in concentration.
Clasping her hands together she furrowed her eyebrows together, her hands emmited a purple glow, shooting out of the top of the bathroom ceiling the glow was gone.
Though, in each other remaining victoms rooms the purple light appeared, putting a protective barrier in the inside of the toilet bowl just at the top edge. Smiling to herself she flushed the toilet and began washing her hands, she had to make it seem like she was using the bathroom. drying her hands off she unlocked the door and opened it, everyone was gone besides Folken and Dilandau.
It seemed as if they were in a heated arguement until she interrupted them, Folken glanced at her before leaving. Ashley frowned and watched Dilandau space out for a moment before turning his attention to her. He glared at her before turning on his heel and going out of the door, only to stop and turned sideways to glance at her.
" If it means anything to you, I'm sorry for almost breaking your nose, and you're right I should knock." He almost whispered, Ashley's eyes softened as she nodded her head. She still didn't like being alone with him, he was like a pregnant woman, he could be the most crazy, evillest bitch around one minute, then the next he's as sweet as a new born kitten.
" I forgive you." Ashley whispered, he nodded slowly and started walking out the door again. Smiling to herself she was happy, she was finally getting through to him, and her plan was underway.
Skipping happily out the med bay doors she made it to the middle of her hallway when loud screams erupted from almost every room in the hallway. Then out came some very naked, very pissed, and very uncomfortable dragonslayers. Ashley tried to keep a straight face only to result in laughing so hard she fell on her ass. After much glaring on the dragonslayers parts they ended up having to run to the shower room and finishing there. Ashley was still in the middle of the hallway floor laughing her ass off. What got her going was the horrified looks on everyone's faces, the screams they made as they became scared, and how mad they were. Though when she finally recollected herself she leaned up against the wall of the hallway and waited for them to come out.
Though, when they did they weren't very happy, Chesta was near crying, Dilandau was thinking about burning her, Gatti and Dalet were talking about hanging her by her hair, Guimel was gonna Crima Claw her, and Migel was thinking about making her clean his bathroom up.
" Why the hell did you do that?!?" Dilandau yelled, Ashley almost started laughing again but the looks on their faces was so serious, so mad, so...pained.
" Oi, if I knew it was this horrible I wouldn't have done it." Ashley said and bit her bottom lip. " Cuz, on Earth people do this all the time." She continued, she saw Chesta lighten up a bit. Then he started to laugh, it was a weak laugh but a laugh none the less, then gradually it became louder as more of the guys joined in. The only one not laughing was Dilandau." I thought you were mad?" Ashley asked puzzled.
" We were, but if you think about the situation and what measures you took it's hilarious." Dalet explain as the other guys joined in with ' huh's and yeahs'. Ashley grinned and jumped up from her spot on the floor.
" Well, I'm go'in to be." Ashley said, hugging each of them, even Dilandau no matter how sick he is or even if he didn't hug back, she skipped to her door. " Goodnight everyone, luv ya!!" Opening the door she hopped inside and shut it, then a faint click of the lock could be heard.Shaking their heads everyone left to clean their bathrooms, and to think they had a mission that night.
Note: Wow, longer than I thought, I actually had to finish it on Notepad since AOL wont open files that are over 30 kb's. Weird huh? Anyhoo, how ya liked it, I know I did, and just to let everyone know, I still have the damned cold but it's not as bad, I was actually in the hospital. But, the nice nurses let me have a laptop once a week. Anyhoo, I'll try to get he seventh chapter up soon, k..bai!!
~Koori~
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter six
Ashley was still sleeping when the guys got up the next morning, which was a good thing in their opinions. Apparently they were damn near terrorfied of the 'wrath' they were going to sooner than later endure. They just couldn't imagine what. So, that morning they had their eyes peeled for any kind of weird or odd thing in or outside of their rooms.
The seven young men were all seated around their table in the mess hall idly chatting and pushing food along the edges of their plates. They were all wary, of everything, and everyone else ont he Vione. For all they know the blasted girl could have made some 'freinds' that would do and tell her things that could give her an edge on her pranks. It was like Armagedon and they were afraid that hell was a little closer to home than they naturally thought.
" So, Viole what do you think she'll do to us?" Guimel asked as he set his glass down. Viole glanced at him sideways and almost glared at him.
" I don't know, what do you think she'll do to us?" He asked him back.
" If I knew I wouldn't be ask'in you." Viole snorted at this while Dalet chuckled lightly. Sometimes some playful bickering amongst themselves always helped to lighten the weight on their shoulders.
As they resumed their meals, our tiny little female terror was thinking up ideas to torture her freinds. Well, actually she was most likely dreaming them up, but for some reason, everything wasn't right.
Ashley was laying on her bed, which was normal for anyone sleeping in their room... on a bed. She was laying on her back, legs and arms bent at odd angles, neck mushed on one side, her mouth all the way open and light snore could be heard. The light was shining brightly in through the bay window since Ashley forgot to draw the curtains before she went to bed. (( I can't sleep if I don't and my windows are a foot above my head, I'm 5'0)) It was about ten in the morning, and almost the time when Ashley normally got up. Though, cracking a viole eye open she groggily got up thirty minutes earlier. She definately had some work to do, and it would be the best job she's ever done.
" Hm, I wonder what I should do." she mused to herself as she went to her armour and pulled out a little summer dress. The dress was pale blue with little white flowers in the fabric. The top was tight and ribbed with two ties to make spagetti straps at her shoudlers. The dress ended at mid-thigh and came with matching bootie shorts. (( ya know the kind shirley temple wore under her little dresses)) She grabbed her brush and just ran it through her hair once and left it down. Grabbing a pair of sandals she bought in Austuria, they were pale blue to match her dress, the sandals were like old day Roman sandals, the flat leather soles were dyed dark blue with silk baby blue ribbons crisscrossing over her feet and up her legs tieing at mid-calf. Satisfied with her litte ansamble she threw open her bedroom door with her gameboy and went started skipping down the hallway towards the mess hall.
" Maybe I'll....no no too easy to spot." She mumbled to herself as she began to click furiously at her gameboys grey buttons. Ignoring the bewildered looks at her outfit she made her way towards the boys table.
Standing before them she smiled as her gameboy signaled she had beaten the level. Then turning it off she proceeded to sit down and watch, studying everyone like she normally does.
" So, what's up Ashley?" Chesta asked casually. He was the only one not exactly afraid of her, she was their freind. Yes they could be mean to each other and unmerciful in a prank but she was innocent and kind and would think about the actions before doing them. So he had nothing to fear, right?
" Nothing, woke up, got dressed, was stared at the whole way here, played my game boy, annoyed you guys. Not too much, so what's up with you guys?" Ashley's answer was fast but didn't go unnoticed by some people.
" We're just sitting here, eating." Dilandau answered for the first time the group had ever started talking. He on the other hand was not the least bit afraid or anxious to find out what she would do. What would happen would happen, though he doubted if she would do anything to them.
Ashley smiled at them and her violet eyes were lighter than before, they even twinkled, though to anyone close to her this meant they were in for the ride of their lives. Still smiling she set her game boy down and nodded, then jumping up she literally skipped out of the mess hall doors. All boys sitting at the table watched her nervously, all wondering what she was up to, though still not anxious to find out.
Ashley was laughing evilly to herself her entire treck to her brothers lab, she knew that he would, and could help her with this prank. She had already decided on which one she was going to do. It was a prank someone had played on the entire councelors group. Ashley loved the idea and decided to give the boys a taste of the Mystic Moon in all its glory. Yes, there were many, many nice things she could have taught them like hockey or something but she thought this was better. Or at least to her since she wasn't on the receiving end of the deal. Catching sight of her brothers large, double doored lab she skipped happily up to it and knocked three times. She waited three minutes before frowning and knocking again this time more demandingly.
" Come in, Kurai." Was heard through the door, Ashley scrunched up her nose, her brother knew she hated to be called that. Yes, Kurai Murasaki de Fanel was her given name, but she grew up most of her life with Ashley and she wasn't about to change. Besides, his name was really Folken Laquor de Fanel but he now demands she call him Folken Strategos of Zaibach. Calming her nerves and setting her face into a blank expression she pushed the heavy oak doors open and let them swish closed behind her as she entered.
The room was large, dark, a very metallic like, her brother stood by a low metallic operating table like thing. He was hunched over peering into the eye of a microscope, most likely trying to mess with mother nature. His black cloak was off and he was wearing his pale blue tank top, his mecanical arm supporting him up while he wrote down something on a pad off paper. Now was the only time she actually noticed his hair came to hise shoulders, weird hair cut if you asked her, she'd rather him cut it or grow it out so it was all the same length at his shoulders. Sighing Ashley walked casually over to a stool that was seated opposite of her brother on the other side of the metallic table. The room was cold and sent shivers up her spine every so often, her normally pale skin now had an edge of pink, apparently he had to keep the room cold cause of most of his experiments.
Sitting down at the stool Ashley folded her arms on her table, almost afraid they'd get frozen there. Leaning her chin down she rested it on the tops of her forearms and looked at the slide he was looking at. The slide was bright red against the light, indicating that it was a blood sample, frowning Ashley looked up at her brother who was once again looking inside the eye peice of the microscope, every so often tuning the Fine and Course adjustment knobs to get a better veiw of the blood sample. After studying him for about fifteen minutes Ashley thought it safe to ask him her questions, all the while trying to sound cute, innocent, and polite.
" Hey um niisan, are you really, really, really, extremely busy right now?" She asked him while idly twirling a peice of hair between her fingers. Her looked away from the eye peice to study her a moment before smirking, she wasn't fooling him.
" Yes, I am really, really, really, extremely busy right now, why ever do you ask koneko?" Folken said extremely sweetly. Frowning as she watched him go back to his work she decided to go around about it in a way.
" Oh, what are you working on?" She asked him, he didn't look up but he did answer.
" Looking at some blood samples of everyone on board the Vione, well besides you, because there is a weird cold going around and I'm trying to find a cure." He explained, Ashley nodded her head slowly as if she understood, though in truth she didn't understand anything. " Why do you ask komoko otome?" He smirked as she frowned, even though he hadn't looked away didn't mean he couldn't see her face.
" Well, I was kinda wondering if you could help me." She said in a small voice, blinking he rose one of his pale blue eye brows and looked away from his samples to look at her fully.
" what kind of help?"
" I just need some sort of a liquid that will make anyone who drinks it shit themselves, and I mean really, really, really bad." Folken blinked and then began to chuckle ever so slightly until it became an all out laugh. Ashley blinked but shrugged it off, he stopped about two seconds later and nodded his head.
" Yes, I'll have it done for you before dinner time." Folken said, Ashley squeeled and jumped off from her seat, then she literally threw herself at him. Hugging his tightly she buried her face into his stomach and stayed there. Folken smiled gently down upon his little sister and held her close to him, stroking her hair affectionately. "Now, run along, I must get some work done before I make your little chemical." He said backing away from her, Ashley nodded smiling widely before running out of the door.
' I wonder what she'll be doing with it..' he said to himself as he bent over his blood samples once again attempting to get some work done.
Ashley didn't stop running until she made her way to a part of the Vione she didn't recognize. Frowning she looked around and noticed there was a set of large black doors, shrugging her shoulders she decided to check out the rooom. Pushing them open slightly she walked slowly inside, shivering slightly at how cold it was she noticed that it was a throne room of some sort. In the middle of the room was a large black chair with red velvet cushioning. It was set up on two steps, the entire room was a black void, with only a lone lamp hanging up above the black and red chair. A black end table sat next to it with a clear glass bottle, and a dagger on top. The glass bottle was only filled half way.
Walking slowly towards the throne she felt the room get colder and visibly shuddered this time. It was spooky, even for her, and extremely cold, walking up to the throne she walked around it and put her hands on it running them along the upholstery. Coming to the front she stood there staring ahead of her, there was a lone window behind the chair, with a thick black curtain, only a thin stream of light dared to penetrate the darkness. She felt that she wasn't alone, and that who ever was in here was very close, she could almost hear them breathing. Her body stiffened as she saw a shadow cast itself over her and the chair, she was about to turned around when someone leaned their head down onto her shoulder and whispered into her right ear.
" What are you doing in my throne room?" the voice whispered, it was cold, monotoned, yet slightly amused. Slightly startled Ashley turned around only to fall into the chair, sitting down.
Then when she spotted who was standing before her she scowled, it was Dilandau, he had been the one who scared her. He had been doing a lot of that hadn't he? " Well, answer the question?" He smiled down at the rapidly blinking girl, his smile turned into a wolfish grin as he rest his hands on either sides of the chair on the arm rests.
As he leaned forward towards her Ashley scooted back until she was practically trying to become one with the chair. He was literally scaring her, she didn't know if he was drunk, psycotic, or just both. Swallowing a lump forming in her throat she stared into his fiery crimson eyes and knew he wasn't drunk, just...crazy. Blinking she bit her lip and watched as he moved his left hand from the arm rest of the chair to her thigh, which was now and totally bare from her dress riding up.
" I-I was just.... um...just walking through.. and found this door... and decided to...um... explore the room..." She answered, slightly stuttering as she went, he smirked wickedly and leaned in so that their faces were merely only inches apart.
" Well, you shouldn't exaclty be in here. See, little girls who go unattended can get into some pretty nasty situations, such as the beginnings of this one." He spoke these words to her in a dangerously low voice, Ashley bit her bottom lip once again to keep it from trembling, she was actually scared shitless, and apparently this was driving him to keep going.
As they continued to stare at each other Ashley frowned and spoke to him in a whisper.
" You're crazy." He threw his head back and laughed, then brought it back down to look into her darkening violet eyes.
" Am I really?" He asked, Ashley just blinked, then realizing how uncomfortable this was, since because of their last kiss she pushed him away. He stumbled back and laughed as she jumped off the stairs and ran towards the doors, pulling them open she looked back at his still laughing form and then dashed out the door.
She continued to run until she made it to the rooms of hers and the dragonslayers. Slowling down she leaned against a wall and shivered, she felt cold,scared, worried, and uncertain. Sighing a big heaving puff of breath she pushed herself off the wall with her shoudlers and headed into her room. Not bothering to shut the door she began to make her messy bed and grabbed a deck of cards out of her duffel bag. Sitting back down on the floor she took her shoes off and crossed her legs. Setting up the cards for a game of solitaire, a game she couldn't beat even if her life depended on it. Turning on her mini stereo she switched discs and Pink's ' Don't let it get to me.' filtered through the speakers and into her ears. All she had to do no was wait for her brother to give her his newest concoction, find some type of other worldly saryan wrap, and her camera, then she was all set. But, in the mean time she was going to sit in her room, listen to music, and trying to get the thought of the previous actions Dilandau took out of his concious.
Van and Allen were standing alone on the crusade, it was daylight and they were just enjoying the veiw of the green trees below the slowly floating Crusade. Neither of them really liked each other, they were just another obastacle to saving Gaea, winning Hitomi's heart, and other such things. Silence, silence was the only thing they did agree on however, even though it was such a small simple thing they never really got a chance to grasp it. Sometimes they got a minute or two of the silent feeling, though it was always disturbed by either Merle, Hitomi, or one of the crew. But, right now, at this very window no one knew they were there, and no one could find them.
' I wonder who that girl was...' Van trailed off his thoughts as he shifted her weight from his left foot to the right. He glanced at Allen with his crimson eyes and sighed, Allen was everything Hitomi saw in a guy, he had no chance to compete. ' But, that's what makes it more fun.' he said to himself, an image of Hitomi in that dress Millerna let Hitomi borrow flashed through his mind. He smiled outwardly though it soon turned into a scowl when Allen began to speak.
" I think we should kidnap that girl, Ashley I beleive her name was." Allen said, his voice was low and hushed, he must've not have wanted to be disturbed.
" No, that would be too much for her, I mean think about it, she died then mysteriously came back. " Van said, his twin black eyebrows furrowed together slightly as he chewed on his bottom lip thinking.
" Well, I only said that was because she isn't from here, you heard what Hitomi said she saw. That girl is from the Mystic Moon as well, and since Zaibach took her away from her home she must possess some sort of power similar to Hitomi's. If they have that to use for their every whim this planet is doomed, as well as Hitomi's." Van thought about this before coming to a conclusion.
" Yes, I beleive it is the only way also, but, how do you suppose we get to her?" Allen smirked his I'm-smarter-than-you smirk and turned back to the large window.
" You'll have to let them capture you, see we already know that their flight path is headed towards Freid, well if we get close enough to them they're bound to send someone after you. Plus, Dilandau can't stand you for some reason, so why not a better time. Well, once you get captured you win your way through the girls heart, convince her to come with you and when we come to save you, she'll come to. " Allen explained, Van rolled this through his brain racking the idea for any loops or pulleys that were broken.
" What if she doesn't agree?" Was his whispered reply as someone walked past the door.
" Then, we force her." Allen replied, it was blunt, to the point and extremely short, Van nodded and fell back into his thoughts. The girl looked stangely familiar to him, but he couldn't place it.
Ashley had tried to play solitary six times in the last two hours, she was now on her seventh game and beginning to get very, very, very bored. She was laying on her stomach with a pillow under her chest as she contemplated which card she would pick next. She forgot to shut her door, though didn't mind, it's not like she had anything to hide from anyone. Though everytime someone walked past her door they would stop for a moment and shake their head slowly and start up again. She was oblivious though, she didn't care what others thought, or atleast that's what it seemed. She actually did care, and any critizism someone made about her, jokingly or not she took seriously. Like, one time someone was joking about her hair style of two twin heart shaped ondagos, she was trying to imitate Sailor Moon, so she went home and hade her mother cut it to her shoudlers and she wore it in a ponytail. Then they made a big deal about her cutting her hair so she grew it back. It took a long time and she hasn't cut it since, this was in fourth grade.
Rolling onto her right side she positioned the pillow under her head and curled up, heaving a large sigh she closed her dark violet orbs and fastly went to sleep. She wasn't aware however of the black garbed man standing in her doorwar casting a mean stare down upon her small form. He hurriedly walked away towards her brothers lab, Ashley didn't know it now, but this man would be her worst enemy of all time.
Dilandau didn't understand what was wrong with him, he was doing strange things he thought he couldn't even be possessed into doing. And for what? A small meaningless girl, who would be better off on a street corner asking guys if they wanted a good time. He was sitting on his black and red throne, the same throne he had forced Ashley into and sighed. His bored facade was working as he watched his loyal slayers lounge around the room talking aimlessly in hushed whispers amongst each other. Yes, he loved them, they were his only true family, the only people he ever knew that would literally die for him. He rested his head in his hands and stared down at his lap, it was boring, they wouldn't be reaching Freid for another day or maybe more at the pace the Vione was going.
He sighed bored, he being bored was not good for any healthy person, because after a while they wouldn't be so healthy anymore. He chuckled to himself at his stupid thoughts, and sentences that made no sense. But, the one thing he couldn't keep out of his mind was his longing, his wanting for that damned girl!!
' How can one girl do so much to me?' he asked himself, but he wasn't expecting it to answer back.
' Because you love her.' the eerie female voice whispered out of no where. Dilandau growled loudly causing all commotion in his throne room to stop. He glared at no one in particular which caused every slayer to leave the room.
' No I don't!! She's just another toy for me to play with.' Dilandau argued, though he knew in the back of his distraught mind that he was battling a lost battle. Growling low in his throat he picked up the bottle of Vino off the end table and greedily downed it, he'd do anything to get this bitch out of his head.
Ashley was curled into a small ball with the pillow hugged to her chest, mashed between her legs, chest, arms, and some of her head. The cards she had been playing with were scattered everywhere from when she was sleeping. It was an hour into dinner and most of everyone would be retiring now. Her brother, Folken, walked past her room with the vile of chemicals she had asked for. He glanced towards the oddly opened door and stopped when he saw a large purple lump in the middle of her floor. Blinking he smiled at what he saw, his sister was so cute when she was asleep. Sure, she would never be able to see this, but it was adorable he could watch her all day it was his only way of knowing she was safe int he barracades of her mind, and his ever protective watch. Sighing he knew she'd be pissed off at him if he didn't wake her up, so reluctantly he walked into the room and nudged her side with the tip of his black boots. She stirred, moaned, and flopped over onto her other side, blinking he nudged her again but harder and only succeeded in being swatted and told ' mom, five more minutes please, and a slightly incoherent ' I still wanna ride the tissue box..' before she ceased all motion. Blinking a couple of times he nudged her yet again except more demandingly, her eyes flew open as she stared at him a minute, then blinking her eyes a couple of times, just like he had done only minutes ago, she squinted and said in a groggy voice.
" What?!?" Ashley stood up slowly and began to stretch her arms out and she winced when she heard her back crack.
" Here's your concoction you had me make for you." Folken spoke while holding the large beaker, eye dropper, with this weird smoking neon green liquid, or more like goo.
Ashley rose one delicate eyebrow and gagged, it really stunk it was like a mixture of cooking eggplant and rotten eggs ten folds. Shuddering and squeeking a slow 'eeww' she took it into both of her hands though kept her face to the side.
" Thankz, I think." She said and scrunched her nose up, this was unbearable.
" Alright all you do is slip it into their Vino tonight." Ashley frowned and looked up at him ignoring the gross smell emitting from the beaker.
" How the hell do I do that?!?" Ashley exclaimed, Folken only laughed in return, Ashley glared which made him stop.
" You'll figure something out." Folken then turned on his black booted heels and left, Ashley reavverted her violet hues to the mess in front of her, if she didn't get it out of her room it'll start smelling like it all the time.
Growling Ashley walked out of her room and towards the kitchen, it was maybe about an hour or so past dinner. So that meant, if she slipped the chemical into the bottle of Vino, some how got into their rooms, covered the inside of the tiolet with something, and then gave the vino to the boys in question she'd be set. The only question so far is, would they drink it?
It didn't take her very long to get to the kitchen, walking through the large doors she was met by the smiling face of one of the cooks. He looked down on her with his steely blue eyes and his smile seemingly windened. Ashley new this man, he was one of her brother's freinds, or sort of.
" What can I getcha m'lady?" He asked her in a gruff, yet soft voice.
" Uh, two bottles of highly achoholic vino please." Ashley spoke in a soft, innocent voice which caused the chef to blink. After all what would a young, innocent, and well brought up girl like herself want or need with a highly alchoholic bottle of vino.
" And may I ask what you plan to do with this?" The chef asked warily.
" It's for Dilandau and his Dragon Slayers." Was her short reply, a visible amount of releif washed over the chef as he nodded his head rapidly and went to a cabinet. Pulling on one of the oak doors he reached inside and pulled out the two bottles in question. Ashley smiled as she thanked him, turning around she grinned evilly and her eyes held a wicked gleam to them. Walking fastly to her room she went inside and shut the door. Setting the two bottles on the bedside table she opened the corks. Picking up the large beaker, while plugging her nose, she poured half it's contents into one bottle and the other half in the other one.
Looking around her room she found a bottle of fingernail polish remover and started to hammer the corks back in as if to not seem suspicious. Then picking them up she began to shake them up, watching as the neon green liquid seemed to blend in nicely with the pigment of the red vino. Softly cackling evilly, she still didn't want someone to find her out, she took the two bottles to her door and thought a moment.
' Maybe I can put a ten hour block on the inside of the toilet, like putting saryan wrap, only you wont see a gleam when the light hits it.' Smiling broadly she opened her door and walked out, slowly closing the door.
Checking each room, by putting her ear up to it, she soon found out where the boys were. Taking a deep breathe and putting on a sweet face she knocked three times on the door. All sound seemed to stop as someone opened the door a little bit, then a little bit more. In the doorway stood Gatti in his boxers. Blinking Ashley's violet eyes widened though she didn't take her eyes off of Gatti's face, because if she looked down, she'd be looking at something she really didn't want to be looking at. Smiling shakily she held out the twin bottles of vino.
" Hey ya, I wanted to come over and share some vino with ya'll." She spoke, her voice never wavering or giving any hint to suspicion. Gatti smiled and stepped aside after taking the two bottles into his large hands.
Ashley immdiatly almost regretted walking through the door, almost half the dragonslayers were.... naked. Blinking rapidly before squinting her eyes tightly shut she turned around and blindly ran into Gatti's bathroom. She heard some shouts from her freinds and almost laughed. Slamming the door shut she turned to the toilet and grinned. ' Too easy.' she said to herself as she knelt down in front of the toilet. She was actually surprised the toilet was this clean, but then again she had heard how Dilandau loved a clean area so each dragonslayer tried to be the cleanest.
Checking the door again she turned back to the task at hand, holding her own hand up she whispered some incoherent words and her forefinger began to glow a light shade of lavender. Hovering it over the inside of the toilet bowls edge she watched as a seemingly purple glow emitted a sheild before totally dissappearing but she could tell it was there.
Ashley was about to pat herself on the back when there was a knock on the door, Ashley thought about earlier and blushed. It wasn't really the first time she'd seen a person naked, I mean they do have sex ed in schools, but these were her buddies.
" Ashley, are you ok?" Ashley heard Chesta's worried voice float through the doorway, a slight pang of guilt ran through her heart but quickly vanished.
" Yeah, I'm fine." She called out, opening the door she was glad to see they were at least wearing pants. " Strip Poker, god Gatti you ass." Ashley mumbled and smacked him lightly on the arm. " Could have warned or told me." She added before smacking him again.
" Sorry" was his sheepish reply.
" Well I'm gonna go now..." Ashley trailed off as she turned on her heels and went to open the door only to have it slam into her face. She stumbled back holding her nose, her eyes were watery but she was trying not to cry. Pulling her hand back it was covered in blood. Blinking, Ashley's vision became blurry at the sight, there were few things she was afraid of and one of those few was blood. Looking up at the one who barged into Gatti's room she saw none other than Dilandau himself. Glaring slightly Ashley fell back, she had fainted.
Once again everyone was in the medical bay; eveyone consisting of Dilandau, Chesta, Folken, Ryou, Gatti, Guimel, Dalet,Viole, and Migel; Ashley was laying, once again, on the white hospital bed. Her nose was patched up and was stained with blood, she just sat there glaring daggers at Dilandau, whom didn't seem to care.
" Why the fuck didn't you knock!!" She finally exclaimed, everyone seemed to jump at the sudden outburst.
" I don't need to knock." Was his only reply.
" Er, you soooooo deserve the prank your getting." She mumbled before hopping off the bed. The doctor came back into the room and smiled at Ashley.
" Well, the nose isn't broken, just bleeding, now take off the bandage and let us see if it has stopped bleeding." The doctor insturcted her, Ashley happily took it off and was relieved to see it had stopped bleeding. Grinning Ashley looked around the room, finally spotting the bathroom she ran inside, not caring who thought her odd. Closing the door and locking it she sat ont eh toilet seat and closed her eyes in concentration.
Clasping her hands together she furrowed her eyebrows together, her hands emmited a purple glow, shooting out of the top of the bathroom ceiling the glow was gone.
Though, in each other remaining victoms rooms the purple light appeared, putting a protective barrier in the inside of the toilet bowl just at the top edge. Smiling to herself she flushed the toilet and began washing her hands, she had to make it seem like she was using the bathroom. drying her hands off she unlocked the door and opened it, everyone was gone besides Folken and Dilandau.
It seemed as if they were in a heated arguement until she interrupted them, Folken glanced at her before leaving. Ashley frowned and watched Dilandau space out for a moment before turning his attention to her. He glared at her before turning on his heel and going out of the door, only to stop and turned sideways to glance at her.
" If it means anything to you, I'm sorry for almost breaking your nose, and you're right I should knock." He almost whispered, Ashley's eyes softened as she nodded her head. She still didn't like being alone with him, he was like a pregnant woman, he could be the most crazy, evillest bitch around one minute, then the next he's as sweet as a new born kitten.
" I forgive you." Ashley whispered, he nodded slowly and started walking out the door again. Smiling to herself she was happy, she was finally getting through to him, and her plan was underway.
Skipping happily out the med bay doors she made it to the middle of her hallway when loud screams erupted from almost every room in the hallway. Then out came some very naked, very pissed, and very uncomfortable dragonslayers. Ashley tried to keep a straight face only to result in laughing so hard she fell on her ass. After much glaring on the dragonslayers parts they ended up having to run to the shower room and finishing there. Ashley was still in the middle of the hallway floor laughing her ass off. What got her going was the horrified looks on everyone's faces, the screams they made as they became scared, and how mad they were. Though when she finally recollected herself she leaned up against the wall of the hallway and waited for them to come out.
Though, when they did they weren't very happy, Chesta was near crying, Dilandau was thinking about burning her, Gatti and Dalet were talking about hanging her by her hair, Guimel was gonna Crima Claw her, and Migel was thinking about making her clean his bathroom up.
" Why the hell did you do that?!?" Dilandau yelled, Ashley almost started laughing again but the looks on their faces was so serious, so mad, so...pained.
" Oi, if I knew it was this horrible I wouldn't have done it." Ashley said and bit her bottom lip. " Cuz, on Earth people do this all the time." She continued, she saw Chesta lighten up a bit. Then he started to laugh, it was a weak laugh but a laugh none the less, then gradually it became louder as more of the guys joined in. The only one not laughing was Dilandau." I thought you were mad?" Ashley asked puzzled.
" We were, but if you think about the situation and what measures you took it's hilarious." Dalet explain as the other guys joined in with ' huh's and yeahs'. Ashley grinned and jumped up from her spot on the floor.
" Well, I'm go'in to be." Ashley said, hugging each of them, even Dilandau no matter how sick he is or even if he didn't hug back, she skipped to her door. " Goodnight everyone, luv ya!!" Opening the door she hopped inside and shut it, then a faint click of the lock could be heard.Shaking their heads everyone left to clean their bathrooms, and to think they had a mission that night.
Note: Wow, longer than I thought, I actually had to finish it on Notepad since AOL wont open files that are over 30 kb's. Weird huh? Anyhoo, how ya liked it, I know I did, and just to let everyone know, I still have the damned cold but it's not as bad, I was actually in the hospital. But, the nice nurses let me have a laptop once a week. Anyhoo, I'll try to get he seventh chapter up soon, k..bai!!
~Koori~