Author Notes: I don't own Slayers… *sniffles* (nor do I own MIZU-KAGAMI) But this plot is mine! ^0^ Mwuahahahahaha!!! It's mine! I shall keep it forever and ever…
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Filia ran as fast as she could, this just really wasn't her day. They didn't have something she wanted at the market, and what other things she did get were over priced, and to top it all off she was being attacked by a mazoku. Not just any mazoku, but a rather strong one. Lucky her.
"Eeep!" Filia squeaked as what must have been the fifth red and pink blast missed her by a few inches to her left, just missing her grocery bag.
"Stand still you scallywag dragon!" The vaguely humanoid pink blob shouted. (^.^ Maybe he has issues about being pink… it's not really a 'mazoku-ly color is it?)
"Scallywag?!" Filia screeched to a halt and whirled around. "Who are you calling a scallywag you pink putty!"
"Pink putty?! I'll show you overblown dragon!"
"At least it doesn't look like I got stepped on!"
Despite looking like it had been stepped on, thrown in a cave and left to grow fuzzy stuff, the pink mazoku grew a sizable pink and red aura. The aura abruptly died out as soon as it looked like it about to fire. Then again maybe the black pointy thing that suddenly poked out of it in a painful looking way helped interrupt the power charge.
Filia let go of the shield she was about to set up and stared surprised at the sudden turn of events.
The black pointy thing vanished leaving the blob to collapse. It gasped and then flared with stored power, sending out its earlier energy build up for its final attack. It disintegrated after it sent out the massive blast speeding towards the surprised Filia who couldn't put a shield up in time.
Filia gasped as the attack slammed into her sending her flying backwards. She hit something hard. The next thing Filia knew she felt like she was had been trampled and slumped against something behind her she couldn't see. "Must've blacked out…" she though groggily.
"This certainly isn't a good place to take a nap." A slightly echo-y voice commented.
Filia looked up a little to see a pair of boots phase in. 'Oh Cephied, not him!'
"But I expect a dragon would find it comfortable."
Filia reached for her mace and quickly stood up. "Now lis-" Her mood changed when she, suddenly got extremely lightheaded as she saw spots dance in front of her eyes. "-ten here…" Not to mention it really really hurt to stand or just move for that matter, especially her back and left leg. So Filia decided to sit back down... and sit down quickly too…
Xellos sweat-dropped slightly using one finger to scratch his cheek as he looked down at the swirly-eyed dragon. She must have been hit harder than he thought. He looked back up at the tree she crashed against, or rather the partial stump with a lot of splinters. Only one thing to do…
Filia shook her head getting rid of the dizziness. She looked up in time to see Xellos picking up her grocery bag and dropping it in his side bag. "Those are mine." She growled as she sat up slowly.
"I never said they were mine." Xellos picked up Filia's mace.
"Give that back!" Filia started to scoot over wincing all the way.
Rolling his eyes, though no one could see, Xellos leaned down and offered Filia back her dangerous blunt yet pointy hard metallic teddy bear.
Filia snatched it back holding it far away as she could. Cuddling her mace she cooed, "Did that big bad namagomi touch you? Did the namagomi mazoku defile you?"
"Filia…" Xellos's eyebrows went up when he suddenly found a mace under his nose. "…eh?"
"Leave me alone!" Filia glared up at the slightly exasperated mazoku.
"And then what?"
"I'm going to go home."
"How?"
"…" Filia blinked and lowered her mace. "Ah…."
"Thought so." Came a slightly smug reply.
"But I'll get there with out the help of you." Filia put her mace away. "And I'll get my groceries later!" She slowly started to drag herself back to the path.
"Stubborn dragon…" Xellos muttered watching Filia slowly head back to the road.
Filia stopped, closed her eyes and leaned against a rock to catch her breath. She had traveled what, 10 feet? It was going to take forever to get home if she could only go short distances; it normally took 2 or more hours walking at her normal speed under normal conditions.
She yelped when something grabbed her under the knees, and pulled up lifting her off the ground. Filia instinctively reached out in front of her and grabbed whatever she could to keep from falling, not noticing her tail had popped out.
"Filia, do you have to twist and pull back so much?" came a plaintive whine.
Filia cracked open one eye to see Xellos had picked her up piggyback style, and she had grabbed his hair and was yanking back pretty hard so she couldn't fall back. "Hentai!" She reached down with one hand to fetch her mace, and then whacked him upside the head careful to not hit her other hand.
"Itai… Filia, it isn't polite to do that nor is smart to do that to the person carrying you." Xellos replied leaning forward slightly as he started to walk down the road. The mace hadn't hurt much, though to be conscious after a blast like that took some good endurance. "Shouldn't you save your energy for healing?"
'He does have a point…' Filia though grudgingly putting her mace back and sulked. She leaned as far as away as she could while staying balanced with as minimal contact with Xellos as possible.
And 15 minutes later a still irritated Filia mentally growled. It was hard to stay in her position; especially since she could take a nap… being extremely bored wasn't helping her stay awake either. Nor did she want to let her guard down while she was alone with the demon was carrying her.
"Why Filia, I do believe your tail has a mind of it's own." Xellos looked back at Filia who blinked. "Unless that is your doing?" Xellos's grin became wider as Filia looked down.
Filia's eyes became dinner plates and she flushed red. She mentally growled at her dragon instincts, or more particularly using a prehensile tail that acts as stabilizer when in a precarious position. It just so happened the closet thing for it to wrap around was…
Filia maintaining an air of dignity (head held high, nose up) ruined only by her embarrassed pink splash on her face, uncoiled her tail from Xellos's leg and curled back up into her dress.
Xellos chuckled shaking his head a little as he looked back to the road. "You really should calm down Filia." He could take a pretty good guess how tense she was, considering her emotions were a good deal of nervousness, a lot of anger, some uncertainty, and even a bit of fear she was giving off.
Filia gave a small snort, "You expect me to calm down next to someone who tried to kill me? Even now I bet this is some part of your plot!"
"Kill you?" Xellos raised both his eyebrows, though Filia couldn't see. "If I had wanted to kill you, I could have done so already."
"You have a more devious plan in mind! I just know it!" replied glaring at the back of the mazoku's head.
"Does everything I do have to have a plan behind it?" Xellos's voice lost its normal lilt.
"You sent that mazoku after me! If it hadn't killed itself with the pointy thing, which was pitiful by the way, it should have been more convincing if it did something else. Anything else would have been better than that." Filia ended thoughtfully.
"Aw, Filia that's mean." Xellos pouted. "And no I didn't send the mazoku after you."
"And so you just conveniently showed up then?" Filia asked dubiously asked.
"Yup!" Xellos returned to his usual expression.
"What kind of spell was that then? If you wanted to make a better impression you should have done something better than that." Filia poked the back of Xellos's head.
"…"
"I mean really… a black cone or something?"
"…" Filia didn't notice the depression lines Xellos suddenly acquired.
"Don't you think it was pathetic looking?"
"…if you really believe I'm up to something, I could give into your expectations." Xellos stopped walking and looked back at Filia with a cold look (open eyes). "I could gruesomely torture you and then leave you here to slowly perish. I'm sure I can think of better given enough time, after all I have to live up to what you expect of mazoku after all, don't I?"
"No." Filia peeped wilting a bit under the mazoku's glare.
"Good." Xellos turned around and continued walking with his normal expression.
Filia sighed and looked down trying to ignore the fact she was still being carried by a mazoku that could be extremely frightening when he wanted to be.
She heard Xellos grumble something.
"What was that?" Filia peeked back up still a bit timid.
"Nothing that would be of interest to such a high and mighty dragon such as yourself Filia-chan."
"What was it anyway?" Filia slightly growled back to her previous demeanor.
Xellos debated whether to tell or not, he decided that there was no harm in telling her. "That you dragons are to rigid and rely too much on reputations and stereotypes."
"We do not." Filia huffed.
"Ever hear of Rezo the Red Priest?"
"He was kind, benevolent, and traveled performing great healing feats."
Xellos chuckled, "And he was carrying a part of Lord Ruby Eye."
"What?!" Filia yelled.
"Thank you Filia for that fine conclusion, my ears will be ringing until next Tuesday…" Xellos winced.
"Someone like that had Shabranigdo in them?" Filia trailed off.
"Dragons have reputation of good will and all that other stuff, right?"
Filia hung her head, "I know what you're getting at…" She looked back up, "But that still doesn't change the fact you're the most annoying, egotistical, smart aleck I know mazoku or not."
Xellos gave a wry smile, "But how well do you know me? Other than the times you were chasing, insulting or ignoring me?"
"Well there was-" she paused, "wait then there was that time-" another pause, "and over by the…" Filia gave up and trailed off. "That doesn't change what I know about you now though."
"Ah, I see. One way or another then Filia?" Xellos then mentally added, 'Condemned either way whether I do nothing or not.'
"Huh?" Filia answered blinking.
"So how have you been?" Xellos cheerfully changed subjects.
Still thinking about the earlier talk Filia blinked and automatically answered, "I'm fine."
"You don't get bored? Surely you-" Xellos abruptly stopped talking.
"What?" Filia blinked a bit perplexed at the mazoku.
"Either your tail really has a mind of it's own or your trying to tell me something."
Filia looked down to see that once again her tail had wrapped itself around Xellos's leg, only a bit higher this time…
Filia went completely red this time. "It wasn't me…" This time she curled it around her leg to prevent any further incidents.
"As I was saying… what are you doing to make you so tired?" Xellos began to focus a bit more where he was stepping; the path was getting narrower and rockier.
"Well… its…" Filia looked down to path so her bangs covered her embarrassment.
"It's…?" Xellos prompted.
"That time of the year."
Xellos's eyebrow's shot upwards under his bangs. "Really?" He laughed.
Filia whapped upside the back of his head, "It's not funny."
When she didn't receive a reply she whined, "Can't you fly there or teleport? We're only a two thirds there…."
"What's wrong with walking?"
"…" Filia wearily blinked, why didn't she notice how tired she was until just a second ago? She just felt sleeping yet stifled an errant yawn. Making up her mind to berate and punish herself later for what she was about to do.
~*~*~ (Oya oya… 0.o long) ~*~*~
Author's Notes: Yeck, 0.o busy… found this and decided to post it. ^-^ I'm am working on my other ficcies… but I've been so busy lately. u.u *sulks* Evil classes I tell you… but… ^-^ any encouragement will help my resolve to write! 0.o Oya another fic for me to work on… *resolves to work on 'Verin' and 'C&C' fic* And as for this fic being updated… 0.o I'll try but can't guarantee a fast update.