Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ God Of Destruction ❯ Meet Inferno ( Chapter 6 )

Hello again! I have a lot of explaining to do after that last chapter. I'd bet I left a lot of confused people. If there's anything that confuses you that I don't explain let me know so I can fix it up! Oh, and I will not have the dragonslayers in this story. Sorry to anyone I've disappointed but that's just the way it's got to be. SOWY!!! Well R & R & Enjoy!!

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Dilandau looked at the girl next to him. She was going to be all his answers and then more food for Inferno. First thing's first though. Dilandau shifted his gaze to the interior of the forest where he could just make out the slight glow of Inferno's soulless eyes. He was watching them. He probably already knew what was going on given that he was starting to move and make his way to the edge of the tree line. He stopped momentarily just before he was in full view and took a good long look at each of the now three dead bodies laying no more then 25ft away from him and then looked to the girl standing not to far from Dilandau's side. She hadn't noticed that a dragon was just inside the forest. She was looking behind her, looking to see if someone was fallowing them probably.

Karacoo stood completely unaware of the evils standing just in front of her. All she cared about right now was finding a safe place away from the innkeeper that would surely beat her until she was near death. She never thought that the person next to her would cause her any real damage. Her little blue friends had disappeared now that they had completed their task and the body they had brought was lying at her feet. She was still looking back towards the inn when she heard a sickening crunch and spun around to see who or what just died. She was not expecting what she saw. A huge coal black dragon was standing over one and a half dead bodies. The top of one of the bodies was completely gone. She guessed that that was the dragon's doing as blood was dripping down the sides of his mouth. The dragon looked up at her for a second just before wrapping his tongue around the other half of the body and pulling it into his giant mouth. Another sickening crunch and he swallowed the other half. He licked the dripping wet blood off his mouth before going for the second body. A few seconds later and there was no trace of the two bodies that had lain there only moments before.

The dragon's huge head looked up at her while licking the last few drops of blood off of himself. Karacoo had gone quite a few shades whiter and backed away from the dragon as it began to move closer to her, it's soulless eyes never breaking the lock their eyes shared until it came up to the last of the dead bodies and instead of eating in `small bites' as before it swallowed the last body whole and moved its gaze up to Karacoo again.

Karacoo had forgotten that Dilandau was behind her until she had backed right up into him and felt him grab her shoulders to hold her still. Her eyes widened in horror as she heard Dilandau laughing slightly. She could just imagine the smirk on his face as she realized that the Dragon was his little pet. She began to shake ever so slightly as the huge dragon came right up to her, towering way above her head. As the realization that she most likely wouldn't live though this hit her she actually began to calm down. She decided long ago that when death stared her in the eyes she would die bravely. She was quite surprised when the dragon lay down in front of her and brought his head right down to her eye level.

She gazed into his soulless eyes unaware of the loving kindness in her own eyes that reflected the deep love for dragons she has always held down in her heart. All the evil stories and even the awful scenes she had just witnessed could never destroy her love for the creature that lay in front of her.

Dilandau let her go and Inferno wrapped his tail around her so she wouldn't run even though he was well aware she wouldn't go anywhere. Dilandau whispered something to Inferno that was inaudible to Karacoo but she saw the dragon nod slowly as Dilandau smirked and stroked Inferno's nose. Inferno gave Karacoo back to Dilandau and flew up into the air, heading into the center of the town. Karacoo heard screaming that made her blood run cold as huge flames erupted from the town's core. It didn't take very long for the entire town to be covered in the hungry flames. Karacoo's sensitive hearing could pick up the sound of more crunching that she now knew to be the sound of Inferno's eating. Karacoo's heart sank at the sight of her only known home burning. Even if it wasn't a good home and the people who lived there hated her it was still her home and soon it would be nothing but ashes.

The screaming was beginning to die down and Karacoo looked up at Dilandau only to see a satisfied smirk on his face, it was obvious that he had planned this from the start. Karacoo could feel her strength leaving her as misery took its place. She looked up slowly to see Inferno walking through the flames that suited his kind so well.

"Did anyone survive?" Dilandau asked in a voice completely lacking in any emotion.

~ Of course not. This is the way you ordered it. ~

"Wonderful. Now we can move on as soon as I get the information I wanted." Dilandau looked over towards Karacoo. "I have a lot of questions for you, little one, but for now I think we should move away from this area incase the fire or screaming caught anyone's attention. We don't need anyone knowing that we're behind it just yet." Dilandau hopped on Inferno's back and Inferno placed Karacoo in front of Dilandau with his tail and took off into the air, making sure to keep low to the ground.

Not to far away is a small meadow they can stop at. It only took about 12 minutes to get there from when they took off. 12 minutes of total silence. Dilandau was thinking of how to get the girl to talk and tell him what he wanted and Karacoo was wondering what he was going to do to try and get her to talk and if she would have a better death then those that burned to death or were crunched by Inferno. Inferno landed rather abruptly when they reached the clearing and lay down immediately after landing causing Karacoo to worry about him slightly.

Karacoo got off before Dilandau and moved towards Inferno's head. His breathing was slightly shallower then it was before and his eyes were closed, which was very strange for a wild animal to do. Karacoo's love for dragons easily overpowered her fear of this one and she went right up to his face and gently stroked him. He opened his eyes slightly to look at who was petting him and closed his eyes again seeing that is was no threat.

Dilandau watched the two for a little while thinking it was probably good for Inferno to have a bit of attention and he had made Inferno work quite a bit today. He hadn't really thought that she would ever go near Inferno after what she had seen, and he was actually counting on that fear to get the answers he wanted but maybe now he could use her love for the fire creature.

Dilandau walked up behind her and stood there quietly for a few moments studying his little pet lizard to see if it would be okay. After being sure that Inferno wasn't in any danger and was just tired he lifted Karacoo off the ground and turned her around to face him. She looked up at him, her eyes watering but no tears coming out.

"It's time that you give me the answers I've been looking for, my dear." Dilandau said, again with no emotion in his voice or, as Karacoo could now see, any emotion in his eyes. "Firstly I'd like to know what those strange blue things were."

"Those weren't anything important, I just summoned some spirits as all my kind can do." Karacoo said, letting her head hang like a young child who just got in trouble would.

Dilandau lifted one eyebrow ever so slightly at her response. For one thing he had thought that she would have put up more of a fight in giving up the information, and secondly that was not exactly an answer he was expecting. "And what would you call your kind?" he asked wondering if maybe the girl was out of her mind.

"I'm an elf of course. Couldn't you tell by my ears?" Karacoo said. It was common knowledge for everyone on the planet that the ears and the size said `Elf'. She was now slightly confused at to what this stranger was. His size said elf but he lacked in ears.

Dilandau was very surprised that he hadn't noticed her ears sooner but even if he had he wouldn't have known what she was. He would have guessed that she was a hybrid of some kind. Maybe an elf was a hybrid but he didn't want to look like and idiot if he asked so he moved on to his next question. "What types of people live here and how does where are the big cities located?"

~ Those are sure stupid questions. ~ Karacoo thought to herself. ~ Who doesn't know that? Maybe the dragon raised him. Oh well, no harm in telling him since it's common knowledge. ~ Karacoo looked up at him again before answering. "There are 4 types of people, the Giants, the Elves, the Sorcerers, (Dilandau shuddered) and the Wild People. The Elves are small and almost extinct, the Giants you've seen, the Sorcerers wield great magic that even the Elves don't know and the Wild People are a race of mercenaries. The Giants hold the most power in society and have the greatest population. They rule all the huge cities. And the others are all wanderers. You'll see maybe a couple of them in each town but you're more likely to meet them on the road. The biggest city is Diamond City. It's maybe a month or two away from here on foot."

"Which type of people are the greatest fighters?"

"The Wild People of course but the Elves are the next best and then the Magic Wielders (Karacoo noticed Dilandau's dislike for the word sorcerers) and last is the Giants." Karacoo stated with a hint of boredom to her voice.

"How the hell do know all this when you've spent your life in a tiny village inn?" Dilandau said, now believing that the girl was probably crazy and wasting his time.

"All the travelers from other towns would stop at that inn, since it was the only one in town, and I would listen to what they said so I would one day be able to leave that rotten place and actually live my life but I wasn't strong enough so I just waited and listened." She stated with a slight shrug of her shoulders.

Dilandau looked at her. He watched as her eyes looked curiously at him awaiting the next question. He could see the slight bit of boredom in her eyes. Eyes, what a wonderful window into someone's true feelings.

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Well that's all for now! I know, I know, it's not very much and is really getting `out of this world' (pardon the joke) but hey I'm sure there are people out there who like this sortta thing! Well Review plz! Laters! ;)