Disclaimers: I do not own Escaflowne...unfortunately.
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Twelve
"Ooooooh, this ones neat!!" Ashley cried out while picking up a rather nicely carved set of daggers.
"Hm, those are really nice...." Jessica stated barely looking at them, Mary on the other hand was drooling over them. Ashley kept the daggers out of Mary's reach and examined them.
"Wow, mint condition. If not new..." she muttered and grinned. It was something that could kill people but at least he couldn't burn her.
"So, you gonna get it for him?" Mary asked while jumping up and down.
"after I get a few other things done." Ashley answered, a small determined fire glowed in her amethyst colored eyes as she walked towards the shop owner to pay for the set.
Ashley currently sat in her chambers attempting to wrap her gift to Dilandau. She knew his two favorite colors were black and crimson. So she wrapped the present in scarlet colored cloth before tying black satin ribbons around the boxed parcel. Another thinner yet also large box laid to the side already wrapped.
"He better damn well like this." She muttered and placed the presents under her bed so no peeping eyes could find them.
She caught Mary trying to 'play' with Dilandau's presents earlier that morning while she thought she was asleep. Ashley was not a happy camper than her presents were being fondled. She already tried hard not to get finger prints on the cool, shiny metal. So, after Mary continued to touch them, Ashley waxed the daggers and such to get the finger prints off. She had everyone else's presents in her closet, she knew Jessica knew where they were. She always found them first every Christmas, it was kinda scary how she did it though. Yawning to herself she sighed and leaned back onto her bed, another boring day, somehow Mary had squeezed herself into her brother, Folken's, heart and stayed there over the past few weeks. If Folken was hungry, and not a stubborn ass, and Mary was some sort of edible thing, she would've been eaten by now. Jessica on the other hand had no trouble attaching herself to Guimel, their personalities didn't clash too much, they both had perverted minds, and both were sweet, calm, quiet, and reserved. Though, Ashley felt sorry for Viole, he had his heart set on Jessica, seems she was popular. Both Guimel and Jessica were caught in Mary's room, apparently Jessica miscalculated doors and thought it was her own room. Not that the scarlet sheets and stuff didn't just give it away.
" So, bored. About to die." Ashley whispered to the blank room, staring at her ceiling she sighed yet again and just wished something exciting would happen.
Surprisingly, things had been quite recently, normally she would hear someone complain about the wars, not even the dragon slayer group had complained, or at least not to her. It was almost like they were hiding something from her, something they knew was important. Rolling over onto her side she draped her arm over the bedside and played with the tips of the black carpet. Sniffling slightly, she had contracted a small cold, apparently her brother was wrong about the cold going around the ship, he said she wouldn't catch it but she did anyway, though not as bad.
Laughing to herself she thought about the first time she asked him to teach her how to fly, he first told her he didn't have time. The second answer was it was too cold to learn to fly, some scientific reason, words that were too big for her to understand yet. It made sense until she saw him playing with her game boy when he was really supposed to be doing something with his potions. She was a little pissed off, but how could you stay mad at someone as nice as him. Some people did talk bad about him, but around Mary you got a bloody nose, as well as something important broken courtesy of Ashley herself.
Sitting up she stood on shaky legs and strode over to the door of her bedroom, in less than a week Christmas was coming, and she was psyched. Couldn't wait; opening the door she looked around and closed it behind her as she walked out. Not many people were allowed out after lights out, feeling along the wall she counted the doors, or so she thought, and opened it, blinking she found it locked. Scrunching her nose up like the demented rabbit she is, Ashley took a hair pin out of her hair and pushed it into the lock, she figured out that these locks were just like the locks in her eighth grade. Though, a tad bit harder to unlock using hairpins, but hell it worked didn't it? Smiling, she was satisfied when the locked gave a familiar pop, opening the door she slinked in and shut it behind her. Slowly, she walked over to the bed, half sleepy and bleary-eyed, Ashley snuggled underneath the silky scarlet covers and cuddled with who she thought was Mary.
"Wow, May did you like…work out of do the Hermaphroditia Spell without me or something?…Since when did you cut your hair…" Ashley whispered her eyes blinking. The figure laughed out loud, the voice deep and loud in the quiet room.
"No, I didn't need a spell to look this good." The person answered and turned over to face her. Ashley took one look into their crimson orbs and fell out of the bed.
"Holy…" Was the only words she got out of her mouth. " God, when I opened the door, you could have said something?" Ashley sneered in the dark, quietly though, the walls were metal but thin, you could hear everything that went on in the Vione.
"Wanted to see your reaction." He answered sitting up in the large bed, the blanket pooling at his waist just barely showing his black boxer shorts.
"How'd you know it was me?" She asked curiously.
"Your shampoo always smells the same, peaches its a distinct smell you give off." He muttered and watched her stand up. "Why were you out after hours?" He asked, Ashley blinked and rubbed the back of her neck nervously.
"Um, yeah.. When I get bored I go to Mary's room and we talk until we fall asleep, I must have miscounted the doors and came into yours." Ashley answered as calm as she could.
"But, you picked my lock."
"Duh, everyone learns sometimes in their life; its so easy too." Ashley drawled and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well, you could stay here, and we could talk besides I think Mary's busy tonight." He snickered and looked at Ashley's blank face.
"What?" She asked confused, Dilandau laughed loudly this time.
"She's indisposed, her and Folken are getting it on in her room, I heard the commotion earlier before the enchanted silence charm was laced on the walls.
"Good thing I didn't pick her lock then huh?" Ashley said more to herself than Dilandau, shuddering she blinked and blanched visibly from the though of seeing them making out, or worse naked.
"Well, Monsieur Dilandau, looks like you're stuck with me." Ashley smiled and plopped herself onto his bed, pulling back the covers and pulling them to her waist she grinned at him.
"So…." Dilandau blinked and looked around the room. He could control an entire army but not have an intelligent conversation with a girl he's lived with for a while now.
" Hey, why did you become a dragon slayer?" Ashley asked curiously.
"I just did it. I really don't remember why, I've just done it all my life." Dilandau half yawned and ran a hand through his silvery locks.
"If you're tired lay down." Ashley proposed laying down herself, Dilandau shrugged and settled down next to her on his back while she was facing him on her right side.
"How was your trip with Van?" Dilandau asked out of the blue.
" Wow, and no mean death threats to go with that, its almost unheard of, like pie and meat." Ashley giggled at her sleepy high. " Anyway, it went great, we talked a little, and got to know each other better. He's a real nice guy, like Folken, they actually have the same view points on this war, the only difference is that one thinks the other is the enemy." Ashley sighed and thought a moment staring at the ceiling. Yawning again, she figured she'd rest her eyes a moment, never think you could just rest your eyes a moment by closing them, you end up falling asleep.
"Ashley, I…think…" Dilandau started only to be stopped by Ashley's soft snores. Blinking rather annoyed, he had thought of a way to tell her he really, really, liked her only for her to fall asleep. Sighing to himself he decided to claim sleep himself.
Mary awoke the next morning, her black silk draperies were wide open letting the sun cascade through the window. The snow fell rhythmically from the sky, floating and fluttering to its own content. Her nakedness was chilling, but thoughts of the night before warmed her to the core. Rolling over to gaze at her lover and best friends brother, she smiled brightly. Only to have it fall once she saw that no one was there, or even in her room for that matter. Only one single piece of parchment lay on the scarlet silk pillows of her bed. Sitting up, not bothering with modesty since she was in the privacy of her own room, she picked up the paper and began to read it.
Mary,
My love, I am sorry for you to wake alone this morning, but Lord Dornkirk has requested my presence, as well as the others for a meeting, we shall be back before one in the afternoon.
- Folken
Mary crumpled up the parchment and threw it across the room, growling to herself she flopped back onto her bed and pulled the covers over her head.
Jessica was happily humming to herself while walking down the hallway, for some reason everyone was missing from the Vione, and lots of the doors had been locked. Only the library, the three girls rooms, and the mess hall weren't locked. It was rather odd, like something bad was happening and they didn't want them to know. Like the government and the top secret experiments they did on their army bases. It wasn't meant for the public eye, the civilians. Walking to Ashley's room, she knocked on the door, and waited a few minutes. Blinking to herself she frowned and knocked again a bit louder, giving up she opened the door herself, letting it creak open, she frowned at what she saw. Nothing, no one was there. Leaving Ashley's room open, blinked before thinking about where she could be.
"One logical place; The Mess Hall. Where ever there's food there's Ashley." Jessica laughed at her own stupidness and headed towards the mess hall.
Ashley sighed and rolled over in the bed, flickering her eyes open she blinked bleary eyed and sat up, looking around she noticed Dilandau wasn't their anymore. Frowning, she sighed.
"Probably another damned mission. No one ever tells me anything." Getting up from the bed angrily she staggered dizzily to the door and flung it open to see Jessica walking by, only to stop in mid-step to turn to face her friend.
"What are you doing in Dilandau's room?" Jessica asked blinking her emerald green eyes.
"Nothing." Ashley mumbled.
"You were cheating on me weren't you?!?" Jessica exclaimed half jokingly.
"No, Id never do that." Ashley replied catching on. With those words of pervertedness said the two girls walked to the mess hall together.
Note: Omg, sorry it took me so long, and it sucks too. O well, I've had a bad weeks…school started…awful..Xey knows why though huh? Lol… Well, R&R please…bai!!
Haned Megami se Tenshinranman soshite Kyuui
Chapter Twelve
"Ooooooh, this ones neat!!" Ashley cried out while picking up a rather nicely carved set of daggers.
"Hm, those are really nice...." Jessica stated barely looking at them, Mary on the other hand was drooling over them. Ashley kept the daggers out of Mary's reach and examined them.
"Wow, mint condition. If not new..." she muttered and grinned. It was something that could kill people but at least he couldn't burn her.
"So, you gonna get it for him?" Mary asked while jumping up and down.
"after I get a few other things done." Ashley answered, a small determined fire glowed in her amethyst colored eyes as she walked towards the shop owner to pay for the set.
Ashley currently sat in her chambers attempting to wrap her gift to Dilandau. She knew his two favorite colors were black and crimson. So she wrapped the present in scarlet colored cloth before tying black satin ribbons around the boxed parcel. Another thinner yet also large box laid to the side already wrapped.
"He better damn well like this." She muttered and placed the presents under her bed so no peeping eyes could find them.
She caught Mary trying to 'play' with Dilandau's presents earlier that morning while she thought she was asleep. Ashley was not a happy camper than her presents were being fondled. She already tried hard not to get finger prints on the cool, shiny metal. So, after Mary continued to touch them, Ashley waxed the daggers and such to get the finger prints off. She had everyone else's presents in her closet, she knew Jessica knew where they were. She always found them first every Christmas, it was kinda scary how she did it though. Yawning to herself she sighed and leaned back onto her bed, another boring day, somehow Mary had squeezed herself into her brother, Folken's, heart and stayed there over the past few weeks. If Folken was hungry, and not a stubborn ass, and Mary was some sort of edible thing, she would've been eaten by now. Jessica on the other hand had no trouble attaching herself to Guimel, their personalities didn't clash too much, they both had perverted minds, and both were sweet, calm, quiet, and reserved. Though, Ashley felt sorry for Viole, he had his heart set on Jessica, seems she was popular. Both Guimel and Jessica were caught in Mary's room, apparently Jessica miscalculated doors and thought it was her own room. Not that the scarlet sheets and stuff didn't just give it away.
" So, bored. About to die." Ashley whispered to the blank room, staring at her ceiling she sighed yet again and just wished something exciting would happen.
Surprisingly, things had been quite recently, normally she would hear someone complain about the wars, not even the dragon slayer group had complained, or at least not to her. It was almost like they were hiding something from her, something they knew was important. Rolling over onto her side she draped her arm over the bedside and played with the tips of the black carpet. Sniffling slightly, she had contracted a small cold, apparently her brother was wrong about the cold going around the ship, he said she wouldn't catch it but she did anyway, though not as bad.
Laughing to herself she thought about the first time she asked him to teach her how to fly, he first told her he didn't have time. The second answer was it was too cold to learn to fly, some scientific reason, words that were too big for her to understand yet. It made sense until she saw him playing with her game boy when he was really supposed to be doing something with his potions. She was a little pissed off, but how could you stay mad at someone as nice as him. Some people did talk bad about him, but around Mary you got a bloody nose, as well as something important broken courtesy of Ashley herself.
Sitting up she stood on shaky legs and strode over to the door of her bedroom, in less than a week Christmas was coming, and she was psyched. Couldn't wait; opening the door she looked around and closed it behind her as she walked out. Not many people were allowed out after lights out, feeling along the wall she counted the doors, or so she thought, and opened it, blinking she found it locked. Scrunching her nose up like the demented rabbit she is, Ashley took a hair pin out of her hair and pushed it into the lock, she figured out that these locks were just like the locks in her eighth grade. Though, a tad bit harder to unlock using hairpins, but hell it worked didn't it? Smiling, she was satisfied when the locked gave a familiar pop, opening the door she slinked in and shut it behind her. Slowly, she walked over to the bed, half sleepy and bleary-eyed, Ashley snuggled underneath the silky scarlet covers and cuddled with who she thought was Mary.
"Wow, May did you like…work out of do the Hermaphroditia Spell without me or something?…Since when did you cut your hair…" Ashley whispered her eyes blinking. The figure laughed out loud, the voice deep and loud in the quiet room.
"No, I didn't need a spell to look this good." The person answered and turned over to face her. Ashley took one look into their crimson orbs and fell out of the bed.
"Holy…" Was the only words she got out of her mouth. " God, when I opened the door, you could have said something?" Ashley sneered in the dark, quietly though, the walls were metal but thin, you could hear everything that went on in the Vione.
"Wanted to see your reaction." He answered sitting up in the large bed, the blanket pooling at his waist just barely showing his black boxer shorts.
"How'd you know it was me?" She asked curiously.
"Your shampoo always smells the same, peaches its a distinct smell you give off." He muttered and watched her stand up. "Why were you out after hours?" He asked, Ashley blinked and rubbed the back of her neck nervously.
"Um, yeah.. When I get bored I go to Mary's room and we talk until we fall asleep, I must have miscounted the doors and came into yours." Ashley answered as calm as she could.
"But, you picked my lock."
"Duh, everyone learns sometimes in their life; its so easy too." Ashley drawled and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well, you could stay here, and we could talk besides I think Mary's busy tonight." He snickered and looked at Ashley's blank face.
"What?" She asked confused, Dilandau laughed loudly this time.
"She's indisposed, her and Folken are getting it on in her room, I heard the commotion earlier before the enchanted silence charm was laced on the walls.
"Good thing I didn't pick her lock then huh?" Ashley said more to herself than Dilandau, shuddering she blinked and blanched visibly from the though of seeing them making out, or worse naked.
"Well, Monsieur Dilandau, looks like you're stuck with me." Ashley smiled and plopped herself onto his bed, pulling back the covers and pulling them to her waist she grinned at him.
"So…." Dilandau blinked and looked around the room. He could control an entire army but not have an intelligent conversation with a girl he's lived with for a while now.
" Hey, why did you become a dragon slayer?" Ashley asked curiously.
"I just did it. I really don't remember why, I've just done it all my life." Dilandau half yawned and ran a hand through his silvery locks.
"If you're tired lay down." Ashley proposed laying down herself, Dilandau shrugged and settled down next to her on his back while she was facing him on her right side.
"How was your trip with Van?" Dilandau asked out of the blue.
" Wow, and no mean death threats to go with that, its almost unheard of, like pie and meat." Ashley giggled at her sleepy high. " Anyway, it went great, we talked a little, and got to know each other better. He's a real nice guy, like Folken, they actually have the same view points on this war, the only difference is that one thinks the other is the enemy." Ashley sighed and thought a moment staring at the ceiling. Yawning again, she figured she'd rest her eyes a moment, never think you could just rest your eyes a moment by closing them, you end up falling asleep.
"Ashley, I…think…" Dilandau started only to be stopped by Ashley's soft snores. Blinking rather annoyed, he had thought of a way to tell her he really, really, liked her only for her to fall asleep. Sighing to himself he decided to claim sleep himself.
Mary awoke the next morning, her black silk draperies were wide open letting the sun cascade through the window. The snow fell rhythmically from the sky, floating and fluttering to its own content. Her nakedness was chilling, but thoughts of the night before warmed her to the core. Rolling over to gaze at her lover and best friends brother, she smiled brightly. Only to have it fall once she saw that no one was there, or even in her room for that matter. Only one single piece of parchment lay on the scarlet silk pillows of her bed. Sitting up, not bothering with modesty since she was in the privacy of her own room, she picked up the paper and began to read it.
Mary,
My love, I am sorry for you to wake alone this morning, but Lord Dornkirk has requested my presence, as well as the others for a meeting, we shall be back before one in the afternoon.
- Folken
Mary crumpled up the parchment and threw it across the room, growling to herself she flopped back onto her bed and pulled the covers over her head.
Jessica was happily humming to herself while walking down the hallway, for some reason everyone was missing from the Vione, and lots of the doors had been locked. Only the library, the three girls rooms, and the mess hall weren't locked. It was rather odd, like something bad was happening and they didn't want them to know. Like the government and the top secret experiments they did on their army bases. It wasn't meant for the public eye, the civilians. Walking to Ashley's room, she knocked on the door, and waited a few minutes. Blinking to herself she frowned and knocked again a bit louder, giving up she opened the door herself, letting it creak open, she frowned at what she saw. Nothing, no one was there. Leaving Ashley's room open, blinked before thinking about where she could be.
"One logical place; The Mess Hall. Where ever there's food there's Ashley." Jessica laughed at her own stupidness and headed towards the mess hall.
Ashley sighed and rolled over in the bed, flickering her eyes open she blinked bleary eyed and sat up, looking around she noticed Dilandau wasn't their anymore. Frowning, she sighed.
"Probably another damned mission. No one ever tells me anything." Getting up from the bed angrily she staggered dizzily to the door and flung it open to see Jessica walking by, only to stop in mid-step to turn to face her friend.
"What are you doing in Dilandau's room?" Jessica asked blinking her emerald green eyes.
"Nothing." Ashley mumbled.
"You were cheating on me weren't you?!?" Jessica exclaimed half jokingly.
"No, Id never do that." Ashley replied catching on. With those words of pervertedness said the two girls walked to the mess hall together.
Note: Omg, sorry it took me so long, and it sucks too. O well, I've had a bad weeks…school started…awful..Xey knows why though huh? Lol… Well, R&R please…bai!!