Chapter 3

Looking back at her he studied her face. Her bright blue eyes sparkled as they held his gaze. She didn't look afraid, even though she was on a new world.

"Do you know a girl named Hitomi?" he asked. He watched as Jhori's eyes got wider.

"Hitomi? Hitomi is here? On this…whatever it is…this planet?" she asked sitting up so quickly that a stab of pain shot through her head and she lay back down.

"I am really going to hurt whoever hit me…!" she said through gritted teeth.

"Do you remember seeing anyone before they hit you?" Dilandau asked. He was surprised that he would even care.

"The only thing I remember…" Jhori started, "is going to my fountain and finding some guy there telling me that I am suppose to help someone find some dragon and that I was suppose to go to his home planet…or something like that. Then he grabbed me flew up into the sky and I blacked out. When I woke up I was laying next to a tree. I got up and started looking for the blue dude that had brought me here when suddenly I was hit from behind."

"Blue dude?" Dilandau asked.

She was about to explain the nickname when Chesta came in followed by Gatti, Dallet, Guimel and Miguel. As Dilandau was about to demand why they had come in without knocking (as was proper Slayer etiquette), Folken came in.

"I see you found the prize Dilandau" he said with a slight smile on his face.

Jhori jumped off the bed and pushed past Gatti, Dallet, Chesta, Miguel and Dilandau before they knew she was on her feet.

"I know you!" she said going up to him.

Folken smiled at her. "Nice to meet you again Jhori."

"You're the one who knocked me out aren't you?" she asked. She was furious but wouldn't show it until he confessed.

"It was necessary," he said.

Jhori attempted to give him a good right hook but Dilandau caught her fist in time and held her one arm behind her back and held her waist with the other to keep her out of kicking reach.

Gatti, Dallet, Guimel, Chesta and Miguel stood off to the side watching with amusement. Miguel leaned toward his fellow Dragonslayers and whispered, "Looks like Dilandau has a hold on the situation." They tried to keep from laughing out loud but watching Dilandau try to keep Jhori away from Folken was almost too much.

"I swear I will connect with your face one of these times!" Jhori kept crying as she continued to swing at Folken, who stood back and watched with amusement.

"I've had enough of this," thought Dilandau as he spun her around and slapped her hard.

"maybe that was too hard?" he thought as he watched a thin stream of blood trickle down the side of her mouth.

Jhori stood staring at him in shock. Her eyes were wide and her mouth hung open as she looked at him her eyes like bright blue flames.

Dallet whispered to the others, "well now she knows how we feel…" which gave them little to laugh about since they knew what the poor girl must have felt right then.

"You hit me!" Jhori cried, "How dare you hit me!"

Before he could stop it her hand came up and connected with his face. It felt like she had put all her might into that one hit and it caused him to fall back a step.

Folken and the others watched silently as they stood glaring at each other for a minute, then with a sigh of exasperation Jhori turned and headed for the door.

"where do you think your going!" Dilandau shouted after her.

Without turning her head to look at him she yelled, "Anywhere your not! And…" she said pausing, "I want to find a way out of this place!"

Dilandau looked at his slayers.

"Well don't just stand there!" he yelled, "Go get her! We can't have her roaming around!"

They moved quickly to obey but Folken blocked the door.

"I suggest you let her cool down before you go looking for her" he said.

Dilandau muttered something under his breath then shoved past Folken and headed towards the training room.

"Don't bother me unless it is REALLY important" he said.

Folken walked in the opposite direction and the slayers headed to their dorm room muttering things like "There's got to be something wrong with him! I can't believe he didn't kill her!"