Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ Salvation: In the Arms of The Angels ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 6 )

A/N: Here's the next chapter because these people actually reviewed! Ty's to Princess45, Max, Unknown-wisdom, Ash and Esca-chic (I don't mind, I heard worse things then that Hun:) but before that, I must say this, last chapter had some serious lemon (ty to Ashtik to pointing it out, literally) this one is gonna have humor and some technology bashing, that is all .

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A mid size bag fell heavily on the queen sized bed from tired hands as Deziree collapsed onto the soft burgundy cloths covering the bed. She ex-haled and her eyes opened lazily to look up at a apprehensive Heather and an exhausted Ashtik. Heather stood near the door looking at it while Ashtik walked over to the bed as well and sat on the edge then collapsed.

"I'm sooo tired! Did we have to walk all that way! I'm not meant for this kind of…stuff!"

Deziree flopped an arm over her eyes and reapplied after she stifled a yawn. "Why am I not surprised?"

"Hey! I…Heather give me a word I could use!"

" `I resent that remark' "

"Thank you, I resent that remark!"

"Oh how original, why don't you go into script writing, `Tiki?"

"Nah, I'll stick to modeling, thank you!" At that, the 5'7, caramel colored Armenian struck a pose with Heather holding bunny ears behind her head, with out her knowing it mind you. Deziree laughed at them calling them regular comedians.

"Would you have it any other way?"

"Not the least Heather-chan, not the least."

A loud but muffled knock was heard at the door, Heather being the closest looked at it and heard another knock seeing it vibrate a little. She walked over to it and opened it to see Dalet with his armed raised ready to knock again, he smiled at Heather, and she smiled back. He opened his mouth to say something but Deziree and Ashtik beat him to it with a resounding `oh'.

"Do my eyes deceive me, or do I see chemistry?" Deziree sang out the last word holding the `y'.

"Heather, we know you're a science freak and all but I never knew you excelled in Chemistry and Health!" Ashtik giggled.

Heather blushed and hid her face from Dalet who was also blushing, she hissed at them urgently. "Knock it off you guys!"

"More like knocking up each other!" Deziree and Ashtik howled with laughter rolling on the bed holding their sides. After a second or two Ashtik rolled right off the bed and hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Owwww!"

"Ha ha!" Ashtik sat up rubbing her head gingerly. "Now look whose laughing!"

"Shut up, goldie locks! Just you wait! I'll get you one day! Just you wait…" Ashtik shook an angry fist in Heather's direction while everyone else laughed. She walked over to Ashtik and helped her up saying `sure you will'.

Deziree got up and walked over to Dalet. "So? Dalet, what are you here for? I mean, you couldn't have come just to laugh at us?"

"Oh, yes umm… suppers ready and I'm to escort all you lovely young ladies to it."

"Already? But we just got here!"

"Shut up Heather. Lead the way Dalet! I'm starving!" Ashtik threw her arms in front of her and walked kind of like a zombie chanting food.

"Your always hungry Ashtik, and Heather your never hungry! You better eat it! Don't make me force it on you!" Heather head snaps up alert but her eyes glaze over as she tries to remember where she heard the last part before.

"You who! Heather? Earth to Heather? Come in Heather!" Deziree waved a hand in front of her face; she steps back as Heather jolts back into reality.

"You know, you can't say `Earth to Heather' because we're not on earth."

"Shaddap"

Heather sighed and mentioned that supper was ready and that they should get going.

Ashtik agreed and ran out the door with Dalet yelling after her saying she was going the wrong way.

"I knew that."

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After five minutes of winding corridors lead by Dalet, they entered some sort of mess hall with a long rectangular table in the center. The lights were dim over the table making the room seem dark. Heather could barely see the walls on either side of the room as they walked in. Most of the slayers were already there with Dilandau sitting at the head of the table.

Dalet pulled out a chair sitting her on the left two seats from Dilandau and across from himself. Ashtik and Deziree sit next to each other. Ashtik intently sits next to Migel while he motions her to sit next to him.

"Well, it took you long enough to get here, I'd actually like to get to eat now." With that Dilandau motioned to some servants in the shadows to bring out their food. They set them on the table while Ashtik is close to drooling.

"Roost! Meat of all kinds! Bread!" Ashtik gasps "Oh my god! And wine too! Red wine at that! I think I'm in heaven!"

"You see food and you think your in heaven," Deziree motioned with her hands then turns away. "Nothing new there."

"Hey!"

"I second that."

"Double hey! You two are mean to me, guy." Ashtik mock sniffs while everyone else chattered around them. Heather began to have a conversation with Dalet. Deziree was in a heated dissociation with Gatti about fighting techniques while Migel and Ashtik began to flirt with each other.

All the while Dilandau sat quietly eating his dinner. He looked up to see Dalet flirting with Heather. `I'll get them later…' Dilandau let a smirk surface but disappear before anyone would see it.

Then he noticed Migel whispering something into Ashtik's ear making her giggle at what ever he was saying. `Hmm, another one I'll have to take care of later this evening. This is why woman should not be anywhere near a militarily establishment.'

"Dilandau, are you alright?" Dilandau looked up in deliberately slowness while everyone gasped at Heather, his eyes rolled to look up at her.

Migel breathed out that she had guts to Ashtik, she asked him why in return but he feel silent waiting for what his lord would do.

"What was that?"

"I asked you what's wrong, you look like your lost in another world there for a moment…"

"How dare you speak to me in such a way! I am Lord Dilandau Albatou, Captain of the…" Before he could finish Deziree cut in.

"Yada yada yada yada, its not like we haven't heard this before! Please, oh `Lord' butt-face give us something that we haven't heard before." Gatti tried to cover her mouth but she kept pushing it away. Dilandau's left eye began to twitch.

"Excuse me? You, a lowly girl have no right to speak to me, who has a much higher status then you, a mere country girl no doubt from a little back water country on that pitiful mud ball that you call a world!"

"Um, Lord Dilandau? I wouldn't be saying that if I were you."

"Ha, humor me!"

"Well," Heather points to the mystic moon, "you see the contanite up there in the middle, yes that one, take most of the upper half of it, towards the north and that's our country; its called Canada and it is one of the most powerful countries there is besides the United States, Europe and Russia. And frankly speaking, I wouldn't be laughing if I had they're army barreling down on me." Dilandau looked at her then to earth in disbelief.

"You're kidding me right?"

All three girls chorused together. "Nope." Then went back to eating their supper.

Dilandau sat there almost dumbstruck (of course he'd never admit it to anyone), looking up at the mystic moon where Heather had pointed earlier.

Migel and Ashtik began to flirt with each other while the others began to rejoin their conversations. Then a notion struck Dilandau.

"Although that may be true for what ever reasons but they cannot defeat us with our superior technology; we have stealth cloaks and what do you have? Camouflage? Ha!"

His face turned from triumph to confusion then to anger as the girls burst out in laughter; Deziree fell out of her chair laughing, Heather barried her face in her arms on the table with convulsions of laughter, and Ashtik was leaning back in her chair holding her stomach laughing also.

"What the hell so fucking funny?!"

Heather laughs waving a hand around the room, "You call this technology? Honey I'm sorry to disappoint you but they could run circles around you! By the way what's a stealth cloak?" Dalet supplied that information.

"A cloak you can put on a guymelef to make it invisible to the eyes."

"That's all? Dilandau, we don't need to see you, we have something called radar that can see you no matter what you have to cover you. And we do have camouflage but obviously we don't need it if we were to fight you, we're way to fast; plus we don't use swords to fight anymore. We grew out of those hundreds of years ago, we have guns, missile launchers, machine guns, rifles and laser cannons now."

"Don't forget those space ship missiles."

"Thank you Deziree. There's no way you could possibly defeat us in a battle. Heck, you guys wouldn't last one fight! And you think you could win against us in a war?"

"Fine then, tomorrow meet me at the training area and we will see who is the better fighter."

She waved her arms, "What?! But I don't know how to fight!"

"You just said that I could never hope to defeat you in battle, are you saying that you lied, `Blondie'?" A sneer.

"I never lied! Your just putting words in my mouth! I said the army, I mentioned nothing about us!" Heather turned away with her arms crossed over her chest indignantly. Ashtik added meekly. "Uh, Heather, you did say `us'."

"But not like that! Whose side are you on?"

"Ours…"

Heather whimpered, "Then help me not him!"

Dilandau sat there grinning knowing that she was stuck having to fight him by tomorrow at high noon.

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Deziree walked over to her Queen size bed and crawled under the burgundy sheets and comforter while Heather pleaded with her.

"Please, oh please! Could you please fight for me tomorrow! Look, I'm on my knees here!" She got on her knees in a dog begging like style.

"You know I would, Heather-chan; any given day. But shouldn't you do this one? I mean, you're the one that knows about swords, not me."

"Deziree. Do I look like I could fight with a sword, let alone hold one up?"

"Well, you are stronger then you appear; you can pick me up (with some trouble but you have) and you can throw Ashtik over your shoulder and walk around with her."

"That was before your accident, you have put on ten pounds because of it…" Before Heather could finish Deziree butted in while crossing her arms over her chest in a vexed way.

"Don't try to butter it up, it was fifteen!"

"Oh stop making it sound like your fat! Your not fat, you have a nice figure now (a real one for that matter), not some twiggy wanna-be! Now back to the subject at hand. Ashtik, heh, anyone could do that to her. Honest to god Dez, if I were to pick up a sword, my arm would break in half!"

"Bull…"

"Chicken arms, Deziree! Chicken arms!"

"Heather."

"Yes?"

"Go to bed." Heather's face faulted, but she complied none the less.

She got up out Deziree's Vanity chair and walked to the door, just as she laid her hand on the knob she turned with a hopeful look on her face.

"So will you?" Deziree sighed annoyed.

"Go to bed!"

"Alright, alright. Jeez, pushy." Deziree laughed at Heather and threw a pillow at her, which she caught and threw it back hitting Deziree in the head. Deziree growled her trades mark growl and got up angrily, standing on the bed seething.

Heather backed towards the door stuttering out something that sounded like `oh look at the time, its way past my bed time…um, bye!' She turned, threw open the door and ran down the hall as fast as she could go towards her room at the other end of the hall.

"Oh why did they have to put it so far!"

"Come back here! I will get you my pretty!" Deziree mocked cackled as she ran in hot pursuit of Heather.

"You'll never take me alive!"

"Run Forest, run!"

"Ahhhhh! She's gonna kill me! Ahhhhh!" Heather continued to run down the corridor with her arms failing in the air screaming (in a funny way) bloody murder.

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Ashtik slept almost soundly in her queen-sized bed. She felt a cold but soft breeze moves past her shoulder, causing her to snuggle down into her sky blue sheets and pulled up the midnight colored comforter to her neck.

Then out of the blue a hand covered her mouth ruffly and someone hissed angrily into her ear while she shivered in fear.

"I wouldn't get too cozy with Migel if I were you? Understood?" She nodded.

"Good girl." He let go of her mouth and walked just as quietly out the door as he had came in.

Ashtik coughed and fell back on her bed. `I wonder if Heather or Deziree mind if I could bunk with them for awhile?'

She got up and walked cautiously out of her door and down the hall to Deziree's room.

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A/N: I think we all know who was in Ashtik's room. By the way I have some last minute notes and things that I'd like to clear up. And some little tidbits I thought you'd like to know.

Ashtik is Armenian for star. Her nickname from her friends is `tiki' or `asya', don't ask how we came up with them, lol. She's 5'7, lanky and bony, real runway model material. Long curly hair that goes to her almost waist if its wet, but half way down her back when dry. Brown eyes and caramel color skin. She's a real comedian too; she can laugh at almost anything.

Deziree means desire and it suit's her. If I could describe her in one phrase it be playboy girl. She has those sexy eyes that get guys drooling, an amazing figure, 5'6 amasonic and very warrior-ish type person. She's also pretty smart too, so needless to say she's pretty much round-housing all three main principals (beauty, bronze and brains). She's our personal Mary-sue, lol.

Heather means Flower or a purple plant that grows in Scotland. She's the tiniest of them all, at 5'2 and a little under weight (ok so she's barley 90 pounds), she doesn't quite look intimating, and neither is her personality; she's naturally jumpy and very timid, soft spoken and gentile to the point if she was to ever hurt someone she would most likely be in a lot of pain from guilt. She's also extremely smart, which makes up for her lack of bronze and she's cute but not as beautiful as Deziree or Ashtik so that's another thing she's lacking. Oh and on earth she's blind from an accident she had.

Well, that's pretty much it. If you ppl have anymore questions, I'll gladly answer them.