Deliver Me
By: Miss Fi
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, I simply put them in new circumstances.
Chapter One
Zelas Metallium had discarded her minion. Recently she had been considering a new and improved model. Her faith in her old creation, Xellos, had been waning as of late. He actually caused her some doubt these days about his effectiveness. He seemed to be very distracted by a certain female dragon, and she could not have any of that. In fact as she imbued her new creation, she should have destroyed the old, but she did still have a small fondness for him. For this reason she merely drained him of all but his most rudimentary powers and abilities, leaving him but a shell of his former self. Xellos had been retired. He now only had a past and no future with his mistress.
Drifting in the astral plane, Xellos lay as if dead. He was a ghost of his former self. After millennia of being ordered and instructed, he now had no idea of what to do. He had always had a purpose and a mission, and now there was nothing. A myriad of unfamiliar feeling emotions boiled inside him. Emotions he knew very well in others, and had enjoyed very thoroughly. They bubbled in him causing a pain, like fire. This agony, always so delicious in others, was horrifying. Fear, anger, betrayal, confusion, and loneliness; how did anyone go on like this? He was nothing now, weak and insignificant, a target for more powerful of his kind to destroy. He knew he wouldn't have many friends now that he was weaker than all of them. On and on these thoughts circled through his mind, taunting and teasing him with no reprieve. He lay like this for days, becoming more and more despondent.
Gently, like the softest breeze, Xellos sensed something. Probably nothing and he sank back into his black prison. Again, like a tiny nudge, it was there. Clawing up out of his despair he concentrated on the anomaly. His name whispered on the astral currents like a trembling leaf. Someone was trying to find him! Suddenly in a flash of intuition he knew who would bother to summon someone as powerless as he. Of course she knew of his miserable downfall, and pitiful existence. She despised him thoroughly and now finally she would be able to have the upper hand! A position she so desired but could never attain until now. She had been repeatedly bested by him in the war of words that he found so amusing with her. Her temper was like a powder keg with a tiny fuse. Constantly he wound her in intellectual circles only to make her look the fool. She was so predictable and easy to ignite! She was delicious really, a walking buffet of tasty foul emotions. Well he would be damned if he would give her that satisfaction! If she wanted to best him she would have to work harder than that! Xellos wasn't going to let an amateur like her think that she had the slightest chance. He sank bitterly back into his foul malaise.